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[Russ Allbery]

Lee Kindness <lkindness at csl.co.uk> writes:

> Does this command /need/ to be in the new spec? Can we not lay it aside
> and later document it as an extension?

> Is XPAT a widely used command? Really? Don't most clients just use OVER
> or XOVER?

It's a widely used command if you're doing any sort of searching for
articles; it's considerably faster than retrieving article headers to
search and it can search on headers other than overview headers.  I'm
pretty sure quite a few clients support it.

> But if we do want to document it now - why are we worrying about
> matching folds? Nobody will want to match folds since they are an
> instance of the specification interrupting the data... Just pre-process
> the data to replace folds with a space...

Yup, this seems like the best approach.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>