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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 10:38:24 -0600
To: Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk>
From: Pete Resnick <presnick@qualcomm.com>
Subject: Re: Some small bugs?
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On 1/28/00 at 11:05 AM +0000, Charles Lindsey wrote:

>If seems that the following are not allowed by the syntax:
>
>From: Joe Doe <jdoe@example.com>
>
>Keywords: foobar
>
>I think a [CFWS] is needed in front of a display-name, and in a keywords. Or
>else you allow it at the start of any phrase.

A display-name, like the contents of the Keywords field, is a phrase. 
A phrase is one or more words. A word is an atom or a quoted-string. 
Both atom and quoted-string start with optional CFWS. All perfectly 
legal.

>Also, now comments are outlawed from a date-time (except at the end) 
>you cannot
>write
>
>Date: (a comment) Wed, 26 Jan 2000 21:58:00 -0600 (another comment)
>
>I am not over concerned about that one (and I certainly don't want comments
>_inside_ a date-time), but is that what was intended?

Yes.

pr
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