ietf-nntp Standardization of LIST OVERVIEW.FMT

[Russ Allbery]

Clive D W Feather <clive at on-the-train.demon.co.uk> writes:

> Current text for OVER (and HDR refers to it):

>     For all fields, the value is processed by first removing all CRLF
>     pairs (that is, undoing any folding and removing the terminating
>     CRLF) and then replacing each remaining NUL, TAB, LF, or CR with a
>     single space (for example, CR LF LF TAB will become two spaces).

> There is an issue to be resolved, here. In the generic stuff about
> article formats, which in turn was derived from the specification for
> multiline responses, we've said that there MUST NOT be any NUL, lone CR,
> or lone LF in the article. Given that, TAB is the only thing that needs
> converting.

> So do I simplify this text or do we need to change the multiline
> response text?

Hm.  Does NNTP itself have any trouble with LF without CR or CR without
LF, or is that inherited from the underlying article format?  I know INN
accepts and handles those messages reasonably well (and there are quite a
few of them out there floating around).

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