From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 23 22: 0:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (fedde.littleton.co.us [216.17.174.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22A0637BBB9 for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 22:00:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cfedde@fedde.littleton.co.us) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e4O4x3p19974; Tue, 23 May 2000 22:59:03 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200005240459.e4O4x3p19974@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Greg Lehey Cc: "Bill A. K." , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IE for FreeBSD Petition In-Reply-To: <20000522183912.B78939@freebie.lemis.com> From: Chris Fedde Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 22:59:03 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 22 May 2000 18:39:12 +0930 Greg Lehey wrote: +------------------ | The worst problem I could encounter would be that some new extension | might redefine the meaning of one of my headers. I suspect that's not | going to happen in the immediate future. +------------------ At best these headers are useless -- except as fodder for a mailing list argument. At worst they can increse your mobile phone bill. :-) My origional point was to state that you are violating a convention (use a X-) just as the ob-poster's line length choice was. Messages are divided into lines of characters. A line is a series of characters that is delimited with the two characters carriage-return and line-feed; that is, the carriage return (CR) character (ASCII value 13) followed immediately by the line feed (LF) character (ASCII value 10). (The carriage-return/line-feed pair is usually written in this document as "CRLF".) Each line of characters MUST be limited to 998 characters, and SHOULD be limited to 78 characters, excluding the CRLF. +------------------ | > Current convention appears to be to slap these into a xcard or vcard | > format encapsulated in MIME. | | Do you have an RFC for this convention? The format suggests | Microsoft. +------------------ http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2426.txt This is tedious and has taken on the flavor of a spelling argument. chris -- Chris Fedde 303 773 9134 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message