ietf-nntp Draft summary of IETF 48 meeting

Andrew Gierth andrew at erlenstar.demon.co.uk
Tue Aug 15 12:34:35 PDT 2000


>>>>> "Charles" == Charles Lindsey <chl at clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:

 Charles> Yes, I think you word it as a canonicalisation of the header
 Charles> before matching. All whitespace (including folds and the
 Charles> nbsp character) is collapsed to a single SP,

I don't like this at all - the overview data has had non-printing
sequences reduced to single spaces, but collapsing all whitespace
sequences means an extra processing step before the pattern-match.

-- 
Andrew.



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