Re: Second round for new URL scheme (mailserver)

On Tue, 10 Jan 1995, Dirk Herr-Hoyman wrote:

> Paul,  I see a couple of problems here.  First, you are assuming the body
> only has a single line.  This is not always true, many mail servers let you
> send multiple commands on multiple lines.  The / is my original proposal
> was meant to specify the end of line.  Here, it's just a separator.  For
> this to work, you would have to encode an end of line, which was something
> I was trying to avoid.

Surely having / specify the end of line *is* an encoding of the end of
line?  Is using %0A or whatever so much worse?  Why?

Jon

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