gnus: Conformity
11.2.4 Conformity
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No rebels without a clue here, ma’am. We conform to all standards known
to (wo)man. Except for those standards and/or conventions we disagree
with, of course.
*RFC (2)822*
There are no known breaches of this standard.
*RFC 1036*
There are no known breaches of this standard, either.
*Son-of-RFC 1036*
We do have some breaches to this one.
_X-Newsreader_
_User-Agent_
These are considered to be “vanity headers”, while I consider
them to be consumer information. After seeing so many badly
formatted articles coming from ‘tin’ and ‘Netscape’ I know not
to use either of those for posting articles. I would not have
known that if it wasn’t for the ‘X-Newsreader’ header.
*USEFOR*
USEFOR is an IETF working group writing a successor to RFC 1036,
based on Son-of-RFC 1036. They have produced a number of drafts
proposing various changes to the format of news articles. The Gnus
towers will look into implementing the changes when the draft is
accepted as an RFC.
*MIME—RFC 2045–2049 etc*
All the various MIME RFCs are supported.
*Disposition Notifications—RFC 2298*
Message Mode is able to request notifications from the receiver.
*PGP—RFC 1991 and RFC 2440*
RFC 1991 is the original PGP message specification, published as an
informational RFC. RFC 2440 was the follow-up, now called Open
PGP, and put on the Standards Track. Both document a non-MIME
aware PGP format. Gnus supports both encoding (signing and
encryption) and decoding (verification and decryption).
*PGP/MIME—RFC 2015/3156*
RFC 2015 (superseded by 3156 which references RFC 2440 instead of
RFC 1991) describes the MIME-wrapping around the RFC 1991/2440
format. Gnus supports both encoding and decoding.
*S/MIME—RFC 2633*
RFC 2633 describes the S/MIME format.
*IMAP—RFC 1730/2060, RFC 2195, RFC 2086, RFC 2359, RFC 2595, RFC 1731*
RFC 1730 is IMAP version 4, updated somewhat by RFC 2060 (IMAP 4
revision 1). RFC 2195 describes CRAM-MD5 authentication for IMAP.
RFC 2086 describes access control lists (ACLs) for IMAP. RFC 2359
describes a IMAP protocol enhancement. RFC 2595 describes the
proper TLS integration (STARTTLS) with IMAP. RFC 1731 describes
the GSSAPI/Kerberos4 mechanisms for IMAP.
If you ever notice Gnus acting non-compliant with regards to the
texts mentioned above, don’t hesitate to drop a note to Gnus Towers and
let us know.
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