Armour Rationale?

Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk> Thu, 05 January 2006 14:36 UTC

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If the rationale for allowing trailing whitespace in armoured text is
that it may be added by MUAs or MTAs, then shouldn't armoured headers
and trailers also allow trailing whitespace (yes, I have seen this in
the wild!).

Cheers,

Ben.

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