On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 05:35:35AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >>"Joey" == Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:
>
> Joey> the line. Horizontal whitespace (spaces and tabs) may occur before or
> Joey> after the value and is ignored there; it is conventional to put a
> Joey> single space after the colon.
>
> Joey> Is the space before the colon truely optional? I expect
> Joey> there's some broken code out there if so. RFC 822 does allow
> Joey> it. I
>
> Umm, what space before the colon? We say it has a neme, a
> colon (see, no space), and a value. The value may have spaces aroud it
> (that would be after the colon). What am I missing?
I think the confusion lies in the "Horizontal whitespace" line;
whitespace before the colon is certainly whitespace before the value.
To make it clearer, perhaps it should read "may occur immediately
before or after the value".
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