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Philip Guenther <guenther+822(_at_)sendmail(_dot_)com> writes:
Declaring no-fold-quote message-ids to be obsolescent seems reasonable to
me. Note that all that would need to be done in the ABNF is remove
no-fold-quote from the id-left definition, as obs-id-left already covers
quoted-string.
(Removing no-fold-literal from the generate syntax is a non-starter, IMHO.
Too many messages posted to this very list use them to even pretend that
they aren't widely supported and used.)
Indeed. The <no-fold-literal> is still needed, but its current syntax is
far too liberal compared with its envisaged use for conveying IP addresses.
So some trimming of that syntax could be considered.
Removing <quoted-pair> from it would remove most of the problem, and
defning a restricted version of <dtext> without NO-WS-CTL would do the
rest (it might even be a Good Idea to remove NO-WS-CTL from all
<dtext>s).
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