Thank you Arnt. I think that provides a good summary for this topic and
jives with my take on the pros and cons of changing the spec in this area.
And on that note, and after consultation with Pete, we're going to move
forward with the current version of the doc into IETF last call.
Tony Hansen
tony(_at_)att(_dot_)com
Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
My position (at the end of a longish offline thread) is that
1. Sending anything other than colon-space is stupid. I know - I used an
MTA that did it for years. People write careless perl scripts to process
mail and colon-tab or just-colon gives those scripts indigestion.
2. Some people do it (even after careful thought) and 2822-upd is not
the kind of document that should render thoughtful, compliant
implementations non-compliant.
I'd like to see a new document that says "here's what you shouldn't do,
even though 822 and its successors have allowed it for decades, and even
though some people like to do it". (colon-space, multi-address from,
etc.) But such a document has to start at PS. 2822-upd isn't that document.
Arnt