Erik Enge wrote:
Miles Egan miles@caddr.com writes:
I also strongly dislike the rfcXXX convention. Why not use something like "mime" or "mime-headers". The python module used to be called rfc822 but now it's "email".
I personally don't like "email" because it's too general and specific a name for that package at the same time, but anyway; what should I call my RFC 2822 implementation? I guess I could go with the title: "Internet Message Format". Too long for my carpal tunnel but some good nicknames might solve that.
I like rfc2822 because it is very specific and, to me at least, unambiguous. If I saw "Internet Message Format" I might think "is that an implementation of rfc2822 or is there some other format out there that I don't know about".
To me rfcXXX is extremely ambiguous because I can't remember what all the rfc numbers are. Obvious seems better than precise in this case.
miles