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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
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Subject: Re: encoding of message-ids
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Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> writes:


> That said, RFC 2047 suggest that its encodings are only relevant in
> places where a "text" token would be used.  Message-ID (and References
> and In-Reply-To) are intended to only contain dot-atom-text tokens.  So
> probably it would be more correct to avoid applying to these specific
> fields.
>
> i dunno that it's a big deal though, given the analysis above.

I guess there are two seperate issues. One is the (mildly bogus)
application of RFC2047 decoding to message-ids. The other other is the
coercion into utf8 from whatever wacky 8bit encoding some creative
person might use in a message-id.

d