On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:27:57PM -0500, Michael Young wrote:
- > ... A sentence saying something like "Any
- > other line MAY be dash-escaped as well at the discretion of the
- > sender" would be very helpful here.
-
- Sounds good, but as David points out, this may break existing receivers.
- See if yours can verify this. (PGP6.5.3 silently accepts it.
- GnuPG1.2.1 emits warnings on each line; it cannot verify this
- signature, but if I remove the blank input line above, it can.)
The point is that future receivers will know that such a thing is
possible. They still don't have to support it - it's a MAY.
It's hard to support something before it has been documented ;)
David