ietf-nntp Collected minor issues

[Russ Allbery]

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

>>> 8.6.5.2. Description (LIST NEWSGROUPS)

>>>   The newsgroups file is normally tab-delimited.  Change "by one or
>>>   more US-ASCII space characters" to "by one or more US-ASCII space or
>>>   tab characters."

>> One could go even further and mandate TABs, or at least SHOULD be TABs.

> Given the contents, I can see no justification for a MUST and I'm not
> convinced there's even an interoperability issue here. It's more an
> Ought (to use Usefor terminology).

Even more than that, spaces are also in widespread use.  I don't see a
need to prefer one or the other.

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