On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 6:52:22 GMT, Alex Venn wrote: <snip
> I thought that the current SMTP RFC was rfc2821 and that makes no such > claims. According to that, a backslash indicates a quoted character > which is in line with all of the current RFCs I'm aware of. > You may well be right that in practice there are some non-compliant MTAs > around, but is that any reason not to adhere to a standard ? It makes more sense to adhere to the older standards in order to strive forward to achieve greater advancements in backward compatibility. Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/
