Proposal: digitalmars.D.tango newsgroup

[Oskar Linde]

Bruce Adams wrote:
> David Wilson Wrote:
> 
>> In any case I'm happy as long as whatever you choose doesn't involve a
>> web interface. Mail/news only please. :D
>>
> Sorry what's wrong with the web interface? It may not be perfect but it is very convenient (posting from it now).

Copy pasting another post of mine earlier. Seems #2 might be fixed since 
then though.

Posting with the web interface results in posts that violates at least
five de facto rules documented in mail and news related RFCs:

1. (This is the most serious, as it breaks threading) Generated replies
do not contain the required "References" and "In-Reply-To" header
fields. Thunderbird seems to fall back on some heuristic. In other
readers, the threads simply break. (Ironically, even Web-News fails
to thread it's own messages...?) (RFC1036 says '[When replying, ] the
"References" line is required')

2. A space is placed after the quote character (>) even when the next
character is a quote, breaking quoting more than one level deep.
(RFC3676 states that a space before a '>' at the start of a line means
that the '>' should be treated literally as a '>' character and not as a
quoting marker. This is called "space stuffing".)

3. Messages are posted as 8-bit without any charset specification. This
is hardly a good practice and not within any standard.

4. More seriously, some message headers (From and Subject) are generated
with non-ASCII characters (no charset or mime compliant encoding is
used) (Violates RFC(2)822 and extensions)

5. Long lines are not broken at 78 characters or less. (Violates RFC3676
and recommended practice)

-- 
Oskar