Charles Lindsey <chl(_at_)clw(_dot_)cs(_dot_)man(_dot_)ac(_dot_)uk>
schrieb/wrote:
There are a whole lot of things required by RFC 2822 that just do not work
in news. Some examples:
1. You can't omit that SP after the ':' in a header.
Usually not done in mail, either.
2. The RFC 2822 syntax of the References-header breaks many threading user
agents.
I don't see any additional problems to #3 and #3a.
3. Comments in unexpected places will break some existing software.
Add:
3a. Additional whitespace, missing whitespace, unexpected folding.
All of these are known to break some mail software, too.
4. There are some features of the Message-ID [...] Of course, these
quirky cases never arise in real life, but theoretically they could.
So there's nothing wrong if theses cases were outlawed for mail.
Claus
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