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From: jeffery@jsheese.FIDONET.ORG (Jeff Sheese)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: References line (RFC1036)
Message-ID: <73.246BCBD5@jsheese.FIDONET.ORG>
Date: 13 May 89 06:24:25 GMT
Organization: JStek Enterprises - Frederick, MD
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References: <1989May12.152728.20982@utzoo.uucp>

In an article of <12 May 89 15:27:28 GMT>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)  
writes:

 >>In article <62.246A2DCC@jsheese.FIDONET.ORG> jeffery@jsheese.FIDONET.ORG 
 >>(Jeff Sheese) writes:
 >>If RFC1036 were changed to relax the restriction of all the header lines 
 >>appearing before the blank line, I could be compatible by configuring my 
 >>editor to place these lines in there automatically.
 >
 >Uh, can you explain how headers would be distinguished from message text
 >then?  The requirement that headers appear before the blank line is not
 >a "restriction", it is the fundamental top-level syntax rule for 
 >messages, and vast amounts of code depend on it.

Just a suggestion, if not an 'off the wall' suggestion.  I'm just a small  
system, and a relatively new news user, that's pushing around ideas.  Your  
comments make sense.  It would take too much time and code to parse the  
'acceptable' header lines from the rest, if they were not followed by a blank  
line.  Therefore I should be able to configure my system to conform to the  
already accepted standard.

Thanks, Brad, for getting my mental processes to work on this. ;-)

PS:  I do not represent Fidonet.
 
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