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Hi,

After seeing mail headers like 

X-Now-Reading: Italo Calvinos _Usynlige byer_

I am led to the questions: What is allowable for a mail header?  What
is the syntax?  For example, how about

X-Spook: Peking CIA Waco, Texas Semtex Ft. Bragg radar Honduras
Soviet strategic explosion genetic cryptographic Panama South
Africa assassination

as produced by 'M-x spook'?

I suspect that having entries longer than one line is bad, but can
someone confirm this?

-- 
John H. Palmieri
e-mail: palmieri.2@nd.edu             205 Computing/Math Bldg.
URL:http://www.nd.edu/~jpalmier/      University of Notre Dame
(219) 631-8846                        Notre Dame, IN 46556