From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!trb Newsgroups: net.followup Title: Re: RFC-733, what is it? Article-I.D.: floyd.253 Posted: Wed Jun 9 10:37:54 1982 Received: Thu Jun 10 01:12:15 1982 References: eisx.156 Today's episode of "A few minutes (wasted) with Andy Rooney Tannenbaum:" People blather and bitch until their faces turn blue about RFC733; what they are usually trying to say is that they want a blank line between the message header and the message body and, if they are even more picky, that they want the header fields to have colons after the header keywords. RFC733 is more than that, there's date formats and name formats and much much more, but, especially when people are complaining about the UNIX mailers, they are usually complaining about the From field without the colon and the lack of a blank line between the message header and body. Andy Tannenbaum Bell Labs Whippany, NJ (201) 386-6491