Re: Policy ambiguity regarding control files

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Subject: Re: Policy ambiguity regarding control files
From: "John R. Daily" <john@geekhavoc.com>
Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 12:04:56 -0500
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At (time_t)1021654369 Manoj Srivastava wrote:

> 	So, each header line is logically a single line, phisically it
>  may be broken into multiple lines with leading spaces.

If policy should be changed to allow this for all fields, it may
make sense to simply defer to RFC 822.

-John Daily
john@geekhavoc.com

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