ietf-nntp HDR

[Charles Lindsey]

In <ylsn9l2xp2.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

>And you're making a bad engineering decision by inlining data that's
>already available in an out-of-band form with guaranteed accuracy, as well
>as a second bad engineering decision of putting derived data into a header
>where it can get out of sync.  cf Content-Length instead of From as a
>delimiter in Unix mailbox format.

Yes, but Content-Length only works because the receiving MTA recalculates
it upon arrival, and throws away whatever was there before. A bit like our
bytes, I suppose. But a stupid name to call it by :-( .

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