From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/28390 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: de .* and gnus-group-posting-charset-alist Date: 21 Dec 1999 16:07:02 -0800 Organization: The Eyrie Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87ogbwjtpw.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035165247 29622 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:54:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:54:07 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC10CD051E for ; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 19:10:05 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAB16287; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 18:09:09 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 21 Dec 1999 18:08:58 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA16723 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 18:08:49 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (windlord.Stanford.EDU [171.64.12.23]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id C873AD051E for ; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 19:07:07 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (qmail 688 invoked by uid 50); 22 Dec 1999 00:07:02 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Per Abrahamsen's message of "21 Dec 1999 21:47:17 +0100" Original-Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) XEmacs/21.1 (Biscayne) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28390 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28390 Per Abrahamsen writes: > The fun part is that there isn't any standard RFC 1036 has expired, and > USEFOR does not even (officially) has an draft yet. RFC 1036 hasn't expired to my knowledge; I don't think informational RFCs *can* expire. It's certainly outdated enough to warrant expiration, but so far as I know it's still an active standard. > MIME is a mail standard, the only thing giving it meaning on news is the > USEFOR working paper. Well, and the RFC 1036 strongly implied statement that the mail standards are canonical for news articles except for the exceptions given in that RFC. -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)