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From: Richard Clayton
Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 00:00

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In article <863445196snz@microvst.demon.co.uk>, "Anthony R. Gold"
<tgold@microvst.demon.co.uk> writes

>
>I'm away from home and my rfc's.  Could someone help me with a 
>citation or explanaion of why (or if) the splitting the field bodies 
>of Newsgroups: lines at commas, as opposed to only at Linear White 
>Space in field bodies (and of course LWS's can't occur in unfolded 
>Newsgroups: field bodies) is RFC822 or RFC1036 compliant?

folding is defined in RFC822
folding is only allowed at whitespace
no whitespace is allowed on a Newsgroups: line
ergo, no folding of Newsgroups:

son-of-RFC1036 relaxes the syntax to allow spaces on newsgroup lines,
but few, if any, people implement this.

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