Re: [ADMIN] Lyris upgrade (rfc 1738 and URLs)

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Edward Reid (edward@paleo.org)
Tue, 20 Oct 98 22:06:05 -0400

> The format is slightly off. Rfc1738 defines how URLs should look like in
> electronic text. It is a mistake to add <> around mailto urls. There sould
> be <URL:> or nothing around the mailto;

Jari is right, and I am wrong, about URL format.

However, we all missed the correct reference for the list
command headers, which is RFC 2369, "The Use of URLs as
Meta-Syntax for Core Mail List Commands and their Transport
through Message Header Fields". I found it at

http://www.it.kth.se/docs/rfc/rfcs/rfc2369.txt

(Surely it's somewhere at Internic or ISI or IANA, but I
can't seem to find any RFC archives there.)

RFC2369 defines the list command headers as

header-name: <URL>

In other words, the angle brackets and not part of the URL
syntax but *are* part of the header syntax. The syntax is
actually more complex, thus the brackets, but you don't
want me to try to explain an RFC that I just read.

And Lyris is creating the headers correctly -- except for
List-Software, which is not defined by RFC2369 and is
therefore nonstandard and should be preceded by X-. Unless
of course it's defined in YA-RFC ...

Edward Reid

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