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Re: Mailing list headers: Date:<TAB> instead of Date:<SPACE>

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Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 13, 2010, 18:24 UTC
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On 13/09/10 11:03, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
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> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 15:02, Thomas Klausner <tk@giga.or.at> wrote:
> 
>> While this doesn't seem to be forbidden by the RFC, I think it is
>> at least uncommon, and here it causes trouble. Could you please change
>> this?
> 
> Wouldn't it be better to just change tin to be RFC compliant?

There is also a problem with your definition of "uncommon". I haven't checked but I'm guessing the tabs are there for every mailing list run by vger.kernel.org. Those are some of the highest volume mailing lists that I know of. It can't be to hard to change tin to parse a tab or space character.

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  1. Thomas KlausnerSep 13, 2010
  2. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonSep 13, 2010
  3. Chris PackhamSep 13, 2010
  4. Thomas KlausnerSep 13, 2010
  5. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonSep 13, 2010
  6. Chris PackhamSep 13, 2010
  7. Jay SoffianSep 13, 2010
  8. Thomas KlausnerSep 14, 2010
  9. Thomas KlausnerSep 13, 2010
  10. Andreas SchwabSep 13, 2010
  11. Thomas KlausnerSep 14, 2010

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