[Admin] hosting the UBF-in-CL project

Miles Egan miles at caddr.com
Fri Sep 12 20:11:31 UTC 2003


Erik Enge wrote:

>Miles Egan <miles at caddr.com> writes:
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>>I also strongly dislike the rfcXXX convention. Why not use something
>>like "mime" or "mime-headers".  The python module used to be called
>>rfc822 but now it's "email".
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>I personally don't like "email" because it's too general and specific a
>name for that package at the same time, but anyway; what should I call
>my RFC 2822 implementation?  I guess I could go with the title:
>"Internet Message Format".  Too long for my carpal tunnel but some good
>nicknames might solve that.
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>I like rfc2822 because it is very specific and, to me at least,
>unambiguous.  If I saw "Internet Message Format" I might think "is that
>an implementation of rfc2822 or is there some other format out there
>that I don't know about".
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To me rfcXXX is extremely ambiguous because I can't remember what all 
the rfc numbers are. Obvious seems better than precise in this case.

miles





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