Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!dpk@BRL-TGR.ARPA From: Doug KingstonNewsgroups: net.mail.headers Subject: Re: RFC 934 - Message Encapsulation Message-ID: <8181@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Sun, 10-Feb-85 02:21:43 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.8181 Posted: Sun Feb 10 02:21:43 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Feb-85 04:46:38 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 11 I agree with many of the comments made so far on RFC924. First, their is a defacto standard for which there exists working software. Second, a single dash is a poor choice of separater since it is highly likely that a) it will be used in message text by the user in such a way as to be mistaken for a separator, and b) unbursting will not be universially installed. People who don't unburst will use "-" poorly and the bursters will burst badly. I like the stuff on handling bursted contents. -Doug-