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From: ud@nitmar.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Headerlines
Message-ID: <99800001@nitmar>
Date: 5 Jan 90 01:37:00 GMT
Organization: Ulrich Dessauer
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Nf-From: nitmar.uucp!ud    Jan  5 02:37:00 1990


Hi there!

	I am new in this froup, so I don't know if this topic had been
yet discussed (it may better fit to comp.mail.header, but I don't
receive that group).

	There are some header-lines shich are containing a list of
addresses, e.g. To:, Cc:, Sender:, Reply-To:, From: and more. And I
think there is a problem in RFC822. It says that such a line may look
like:
id: address (comment) address -or-
id: address (comment), address (and some combinations) -or-
id: comment <address> (also in some variations)

	So if you split such a line in its field there is no way to be
sure what is a comment and what not, without examineing the whole line.
So, make it sense to "remove" the last format from the RFC and allow only
comments in `(', `)' or is there any serious reason for this convention?

	And RFC also says that an address in `<', `>' need no whitespace
to be a single expression. This makes no sense and increases the programming
work on parsing, or is there a reason I have missed?

		Waiting for comments
			U//i
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Ulrich Dessauer, +49 89 841 78 11, ud@nitmar.uucp, ud%nitmar@[chi|doit].sub.org