[NNTP] Header terminology

Charles Lindsey chl at clerew.man.ac.uk
Thu Jun 30 06:11:23 PDT 2005


In <20050629080242.GA96475 at finch-staff-1.thus.net> "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive at demon.net> writes:

>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.

Though "head" does have the benefit of being different from "header",
which is frequently used to mean "header field". So that might be a useful
change to make in RFC 2822bis (if and when).

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