Re: [xnews] new icons and formatting?

On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 06:41:22 GMT, Bradd W. Szonye wrote:

>>> News servers and agents aren't required to support anything more than
>>> 1000 bytes, including the 2-byte end-of-line marker.
>>
>> 1000 bytes _per line_. Headers are not restricted to one line, and even if
>> there's a header-limit I don't know about, you can always create an
>> animation by using separate headers/images (x-anim-1, x-anim-2, etc).
>
> That's not entirely correct. Son-of-1036 states:
>
> If it is absolutely necessary for an implementation to impose a
> limit on the length of header lines, body lines, /or header logical
> lines,/ that limit shall be at least 1000 octets, including EOL
> representations. [Emphasis mine.]
>
> This is still the de facto standard for news articles, and it permits
> readers to limit both lines /and/ logical lines to 1000 octets. RFC 2822
> (e-mail message format) and the USEFOR draft do recommend that agents
> permit arbitrary lengths in folded headers,

So does So1036. Note the first words: "If it is absolutely necessary"

And the text in 2822 isn't a recommendation, it's just part of the standard:
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2.2.3. Long Header Fields

Each header field is logically a single line of characters comprising
the field name, the colon, and the field body. For convenience
however, and to deal with the 998/78 character limitations per line,
the field body portion of a header field can be split into a multiple
line representation; this is called "folding".
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