Subject: Bare CR and LF

From: John C Klensin <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 17:25:45 -0400

Consensus appears to be to prohibit this.  The planned relevant
paragraph, to go at the end of 2.3.7, is below.  Anyone
objecting should speak up very quickly.

	In addition, the appearance of "bare" "CR" or "LF"
	characters in text (i.e., either without the other) has
	a long history of causing problems in mail
	implementations and applications that use the mail
	system as a tool. SMTP client implementations MUST NOT
	transmit these characters except when they are intended
	as line terminators and then MUST, as indicated above,
	transmit them only as a <CRLF> sequence.

    john