[ietf-nntp] Draft21.pre-1.txt

[Russ Allbery]

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

> While we need to consider multiple spaces, we did decide quite some time
> ago that a header always had a space after the colon. So the tab case
> can be ignored.

Yeah, I looked that up last night and forgot to mention it.  :)

> becomes, more simply:

>     The line consists of the article number, a space, and then the
>     contents of the header or metadata item.  In the case of a header,
>     the header name, colon, and the first space after the colon are
>     all omitted.

Looks great to me.

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