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Re: [ietf-smtp] Stray <LF> in the middle of messages

Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net> Wed, 10 June 2020 15:24 UTC

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Subject: Re: [ietf-smtp] Stray <LF> in the middle of messages
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> It also, and it is probably relevant, predates Unix, certainly
> any general availability of Unix, by some years.


Because some nitpicking is just too easy:

      Unix was created in 1969, as was the first Arpanet operation.

      But use of CRLF as an Arpanet convention came a bit later. For 
example, it is not defined in RFC 20.


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