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Re: Compatibility wit Netnews (was I-D ACTION:draft-resnick-2822upd-01.txt)

2007-05-02 09:23:47

In <JHD792(_dot_)3J9(_at_)clerew(_dot_)man(_dot_)ac(_dot_)uk> "Charles Lindsey" 
<chl(_at_)clerew(_dot_)man(_dot_)ac(_dot_)uk> writes:

Let me recap what the problem is. Essentially, under RFC 2822 as it
stands, '\a' is semantically equivalent to 'a' and agents are at liberty
to change one into the other en route (of course, nobody ever writes '\a'
and agents en route don't do that, but the possibility is there and some
agents do check for those equivalances). Likewise, '"foobar"' is
semantically equivalent to 'foobar'. Additionally, Netnews cannot tolerate
SP or '>' (whether quoted or not) or any NO-WS-CTL.

I should have added there that Netnews also expects to do all comparisons
case-sensitively.

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