On Fri, 15 Feb 2002 08:15:40 EST, Scott Brim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > In normative text, I don't see how "must" could occur anywhere except > where it was supposed to mean "MUST". I use all-caps but I think we're > more experienced these days and we could stop shouting at each other now > if we chose to.
We thrashed this out a few weeks ago, and decided we SHOULD NOT issue
sidearms to the Protocol Police. Therefor, shouting MUST be supported,
since we are still supporting flat-ASCII format for RFCs, and as a
result, there is no way to attach a Krushchev-style banging-of-shoes
to a "you MUST NOT do this" requirement....
Or maybe I'm just astounded that we live in a world where there exist deployed
MUAs that don't understand the distinction between a CRLF and an unquoted CR in
a RFC822 header, and I really should get some more caffeine before hitting
the 'send' button... ;)
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Valdis Kletnieks
Computer Systems Senior Engineer
Virginia Tech
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