Re: Re: Newbie question
By: Wilfred van Velzen to deon on Wed Nov 27 2024 09:38 am
Hey Wilfred,
> It doesn't say that! It says:
>
> "Although the Origin line is not required by all Echomail processors, it is
> added by the Conference Mail System to ensure complete compatibility."
>
> It is not very clear wording, but I read that as software that creates
> echomail messages should always add the origin line. But software that
> processes echomail, should be flexible when it is not present.
I'm not going to 100% agree with you on this one.
In FTS-0004, in the section about Origin lines (which is point 3), the wording a
s you have quoted "not required by all..." and "added... complete compatibility"
indicates to me that it is not (absolutely) required, but rather useful if it i
s added.
Further, point 1 (Area Line), and point 4 (Seen-by Lines), explicitly states tha
t these control fields are required. So if point 3 was required, I would expect
it to explicitly state that too.
Certainly I agree that FSC-0074 does make this clearer and states that they are
required. It probably should have been promoted to a technical standard, but was
nt, for whatever reasons it never made it?
...δεσ∩
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