March 5, 2023
2:37 p.m.
On 04.03.23 22:12, Pete Resnick wrote:
To be perfectly clear, even though the syntax was called "obsolete" in 2822 and 5322, we are clarifying in the full Standard (being completed soon) that it would probably have been better to call it "legacy": The elements in that section are not going away in any meaningful way, but rather they exist in archives of email and are generated by legacy systems from time to time, as Steffen rightly (though perhaps indelicately) points out.
Right. The point I'm making is that there is really nothing to do on the standards front in this case. We all know that email lives forever. Eliot