ietf-nntp OVER extension

[Clive D. W. Feather]

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In message <yld6s66ua9.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu>, Russ Allbery 
<rra at stanford.edu> writes
>>> >  For the five mandatory headers, the content of each field MUST be
>>> >  based on the original header with the header name and following colon
>>> >  and space removed.

>I believe it should only remove the first space after the colon, but
>existing practice in INN is to remove all leading whitespace.  I think
>that only removing the first space makes considerably more sense, though,
>since the first space is part of the article format but the remainder of
>the line is part of the actual header.  I think we should correct this as
>part of the standardization process, the same way we're correcting
>handling of non-printing characters (without exactly following any
>existing implementation).

I agree.

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