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Revised LISTSERV forum <LSTSRV-L@DEARN> |
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Brian Eliot <BDE@RPICMPVM> |
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Wed, 17 Feb 88 17:04:30 EDT |
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Message of Wed, 17 Feb 88 14:47:14 EDT from <VICTOR@YKTVMZ> |
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Revised LISTSERV forum <LSTSRV-L@DEARN> |
The RFC822 standard specifies how long header lines are to be folded for
better readability, to conform to a maximum line length, etc. It provides
for breaking fields at well-defined syntactic points and a header line
continuation convention, which is that a header line beginning with blank
or horizontal tab is considered a continuation of the preceding line.
Mailers already "unfold" header lines according to this standard. This
would be the appropriate way to handle long header lines without having to
invent a new convention using backspace.
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