At 1:11 PM -0400 8/20/1998, Valdis Kletnieks wrote:
>On Wed, 19 Aug 1998 18:22:58 EDT, you said:
>> The problem is when the string contains a space.  I believe the RFC not
>> only allows the space, the space can be replaced with "whitespace" which
>> allows Listserv to legally fold the line at the space.  Many mailers
>> don't like that.
>
>I believe the next revision of the MIME spec will address this bozosity by
>prohibiting whitespace inside the delimeter.
>

To summarize: it seems that the consensus of this group is that blanks in
the delimiter string are okay, and folding the string at a blank is also
okay, therefore, the mail clients that don't like it are broken.

So, my Listserv clients either have to get mail clients that work (fat
chance), we have to get the WorldTalk Netjunction gateway to stop putting
blanks in its delimiter strings, or else wait for the next revision of MIME
and the concomitant software upgrades that obey the revised standard.

Please tell me I'm being negative and overly pessimistic. Please!

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Roger
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