ietf-nntp E-mail address field of LIST ACTIVE.TIMES

[Russ Allbery]

Clive D W Feather <clive at demon.net> writes:

> I think the address should be any valid form that is acceptable to email
> software; um, probably RFC 2821 or 2822 answers this and we should just
> include a reference. So the brackets are optional, and we should have
> some examples with and some without.

> However, can the addresses include spaces and comments ? Things like:
>     [S] misc.test 987654321 Clive Feather <clive at demon.net>
>     [S] misc.test 987654321 clive at demon.net (This is a comment)

Both of those suggestions have the same problem, namely that the e-mail
address field would no longer be a single field if you were splitting on
spaces.  ("this has a space"@stanford.edu is a valid RFC 2822 e-mail
address.)

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