Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!ucsd!brian From: brian@ucsd.EDU (Brian Kantor) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: "From:" vs. "From_" Message-ID: <1299@ucsd.EDU> Date: 5 Dec 88 17:56:33 GMT References:<1297@ucsd.EDU> Reply-To: brian@ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor) Organization: The Avant-Garde of the Now, Ltd. Lines: 21 The crux of the matter is that RFC976 is a Request for Comment. I have commented upon it; I think its treatment of the From: line processing is wrong. My comment has had the resounding impact of a feather on a snowbank: no one has claimed that I was misguided, no one has said "right on" either. I think it's time to review RFC976 carefully and issue a revised version. The From: line stuff isn't the only flaw in it, but it is, in my opinion, the most harmful error in the RFC. As a minor note, we're in the process of revamping RFC977 (NNTP) as well, since experience has proven that we blew it in a couple of places. No matter that it took us over a dozen drafts, over six months, and had input from and were reviewed by MANY news gurus. Stepwise refinement, I think they call it. I refer to it as "trial and error". Brian Kantor UCSD Office of Academic Computing Academic Network Operations Group UCSD B-028, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA brian@ucsd.edu ucsd!brian BRIAN@UCSD