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At 2:39 PM -0700 7/25/00, Larry Osterman wrote:
>Even if 821bis has a MUST that CRLF is the line terminator (and not 
>just LF), this only means that a server MUST treat CRLF as a line 
>terminator, and that a conforming client MUST generate only CRLF 
>characters.

The actual text from 2.3.7 reads:

    Conforming
    implementations MUST NOT recognize or generate any other character or
    character sequence as a line terminator.

"MUST NOT recognize" is what is being discussed here.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium