[NNTP] Header terminology

Clive D.W. Feather clive at demon.net
Wed Jun 29 01:02:42 PDT 2005


Ken Murchison said:
>> I finally got round to doing this; it was rather longer than I expected.
>> Full diffs can be found following my signature.
> 
> Just out of curiosity, instead of the two parts of an article being the 
> "header" and "body", why not make it "head" and "body", which mirrors 
> the two commands for retrieving the parts?

Consistency with RFC 2822, which was the point of the exercise.

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