Actually it seems to be RFC822 compliant, but it is a bad idea anyhow. Have you ever seen the way long subject lines are being treated? Under some circumstances, they get spaces in the middle of the subject as well. FrankL > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: Jim Serwinowski [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > Verzonden: dinsdag 4 december 2001 21:26 > Aan: LSTSRV-L > Onderwerp: Re: [LSTSRV-L] prepending spaces to the subject line > > > Thanks Peter. And I bet if you look at the Date: line, that > has spaces too! > > Now here's the real interesting part: In pine 4.05 in full > header mode, > *ALL* the lines (Date:, To:, From:, Subject:) have spaces. In > fact, they all > line up with the "Content-Type:" > > An example, from my pine 4.05: > > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > Message-ID: > <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 15:01:38 -0500 > Reply-To: [log in to unmask] > Sender: Test List <[log in to unmask]> > From: Jim Serwinowski <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: testing > To: [log in to unmask] > > > I think we can safely say that Listserv is definately adding > spaces, but > somehow different mail clients seem to display it > differently, either in > full header mode or not (Outlook Express). > > Now the question is why, and I think I have the answer - It's for the > archives. The html code for the messages in the archives uses > <pre> tags > to format the header of the message so that it all lines up, like it's > been tabbed. Take a look and you'll see everything is spaced > out to line up > with "Content-Type: ". Since they use <pre> tags and not > tables, the only way > to do that is with extra spaces. > > So to answer John's original question: > > "Anyone want to venture an opinion on why the spaces are > being prepended?" > > I'm going with - "To make the web archives look nice and pretty." > > However, I believe this is a bad idea, especially for the > Outlook Express > folk. If indeed the web archives are the reason behind it, > they can do the > same effect with tables instead of <pre> tags and save people > some headaches. > > -Jim > > -- > Jim Serwinowski [log in to unmask] > UB Listserv Administrator http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu > > > On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Peter Rauch wrote: > > > Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 10:55:20 -0800 > > From: Peter Rauch <[log in to unmask]> > > Reply-To: LISTSERV give-and-take forum > <[log in to unmask]> > > To: [log in to unmask] > > Subject: Re: prepending spaces to the subject line > > > > On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Jim Serwinowski wrote: > > > Subject: Re: [LSTSRV-L] prepending spaces to the subject line > > > > > > Look at any message in this thread except one that you may > > > have composed yourself and look at it using full headers. Do > > > you see the spaces in the "Subject: " line? > > > > > > I do, and I use pine 4.21. > > > > Jim, I use Pine 4.21 (on a Sun system) and if I view the Subject > > line with headers NOT full, the line does not have extra spaces. > > > > If I view it with FULL headers on, then I see five _extra_ > > spaces. > > > > If I "export" the messages while FULL headers are on, the > > Subject line is exported with five _extra_ spaces. With full > > headers off, no extra spaces are included. > > > > > > Here is how the two renderings look: > > > > Subject: Re: [LSTSRV-L] prepending spaces to the subject line > > Subject: Re: [LSTSRV-L] prepending spaces to the subject line > > > > Neither contain TAB in the exported copy (there are some > > _leading_ TABs in the exported FULL-headers copy of other, long, > > header lines). > > > > Peter > > > > > > > >