ietf-nntp Comments on the November draft

[Charles Lindsey]

In <87n1smdy4d.fsf at erlenstar.demon.co.uk> Andrew Gierth <andrew at erlenstar.demon.co.uk> writes:

>  "Any sequence of US-ASCII non-printing characters in a field MUST be
>  replaced by a single space."

>(Collapsing sequences of space characters causes problems.)

Why? Presumably, if a Subject: is continued on subsequent lines (starting
with some amount of whitespace) then certainly the CRLF get removed for
the overview, and TABS get turned to spaces, but why not collapse the
spaces to a single one? I don't really care how many spaces were used to
create the continuation, and I don't want to have to know that when
constructing PAT commands or Killfile entries that are supposed to match
it.

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