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Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: References line (RFC1036)
Message-ID: <1989May12.152728.20982@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <62.246A2DCC@jsheese.FIDONET.ORG>
Date: Fri, 12 May 89 15:27:28 GMT

In article <62.246A2DCC@jsheese.FIDONET.ORG> jeffery@jsheese.FIDONET.ORG (Jeff Sheese) writes:
>If RFC1036 were changed to relax the restriction of all the header lines  
>appearing before the blank line, I could be compatible by configuring my  
>editor to place these lines in there automatically.

Uh, can you explain how headers would be distinguished from message text
then?  The requirement that headers appear before the blank line is not
a "restriction", it is the fundamental top-level syntax rule for messages,
and vast amounts of code depend on it.
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