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Philip Hazel <ph10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 26 July 2000 08:36 UTC

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From: Philip Hazel <ph10@cus.cam.ac.uk>
To: Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>
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Subject: RE: client requests ending \012
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On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote:

> The actual text from 2.3.7 reads:
> 
>     Conforming
>     implementations MUST NOT recognize or generate any other character or
>     character sequence as a line terminator.
> 
> "MUST NOT recognize" is what is being discussed here.

Quite. This seems to be a tightening up of the "be liberal in what you 
accept" philosophy. On the one hand, I would like to see this, but on 
the other hand, I don't believe you can achieve it, because it would 
require vast numbers of deployed MTAs to change more or less
simultaneously. The genie is out of the bottle, as I keep saying.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@cus.cam.ac.uk      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.

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