Date: 27 Nov 1996 23:58:06 -0000
Message-ID: <19961127235806.19376.qmail@koobera.math.uic.edu>
From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@koobera.math.uic.edu>
To: drums@cs.utk.edu
Subject: Re: draft-ietf-drums-msg-fmt-00.txt

> The question was whether it was unreasonable to say whether they SHOULD.
> Would your concern be solved if it were "should" instead of "SHOULD"?

No. There are some applications where Resent seems to make sense, and
many applications where it definitely doesn't. We can't make a blanket
statement about ``any message which is reintroduced into the transport
system after being received out of the transport system.''

> do you think that "1*(ALPHA / SPACE)"
> would be a good way of putting this in the obsolete syntax?

I haven't had time to study the issue. A quick search shows that ``MET
DST'' appears in many mail messages generated in 1996; so obviously MUA
implementors will have to be told _something_. This needs discussion.

---Dan
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