ietf-nntp Standardization of LIST OVERVIEW.FMT

[Russ Allbery]

Matthias Andree <matthias.andree at gmx.de> writes:
> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

>> 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).

> Windows software might convert LF to CRLF: C's stdio library, in text
> mode, strips the CR before returning data to the application, and writes
> a CR before each LF in text mode.

Yeah, but those aren't protocol issues.  Servers that can't handle those
articles can certainly reject them.  What I'm wondering is if we can
change the article definition for the purposes of NNTP to MUST NOT have a
NUL and SHOULD NOT have lone CR or LF.

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