Re: More thoughts on From: lines

[Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 09:26:44AM -0800, Len Sassaman wrote:
| Okay, it looks like we need a list of allowed headers, and whether they
| are user, client, or exit-node configurable.
| 
| To:
| Subject:
| 
| ... in the first category, and
| 
| Date:
| From:
| 
| ... in the second.
| 
| Do we canonicalize how References: and In-Reply-To: are done, and put them
| in the third category? Or do we just leave them up to the user, and have
| them in the first?
| 
| Are there any others?
| 
| All of these need to be explicitly stated in the spec.

I'd suggest choosing minimal category three for robustness principle
reasons.  References and in-reply to are up to the user or client sw,
unless there's a good reason to move them into the third.

Adam



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