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- From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
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- Subject: Re: Is this RFC822 example illegal?
- Date: 23 Jul 1992 20:52:28 GMT
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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- References: <4580@daily-planet.concordia.ca>
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- In article <4580@daily-planet.concordia.ca> Gary Katch <gpkatch@alcor.concordia.ca> writes:
- > / "In-Reply-To" ":" *(phrase / msg-id)
- ...
- > In-Reply-To: <some.string@DBM.Group>, George's message
- >
- >Given that only phrases or message-id's can appear in the
- >field-body, and that phrases are made of words and words of atoms,
- >and an atom cannot be a special, then the comma following
- >the address in the example is illegal, right?
-
- I think the example is OK. It's a msg-id followed by a phrase. The "*"
- prefix in the syntax means that there can be any number of phrases and
- msg-ids, delimited by commas.
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- Barry Margolin
- System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
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