Xref: utzoo news.software.b:2726 comp.sources.d:3940 Newsgroups: news.software.b,comp.sources.d Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: update on white space in Message-IDs Message-ID: <1989Aug6.040523.11690@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <1989Jul31.053214.3554@vicom.com> <1989Aug4.000449.14891@utzoo.uucp> <1989Aug4.164427.3810@utzoo.uucp> Date: Sun, 6 Aug 89 04:05:23 GMT In article <1989Aug4.164427.3810@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: >Geoff is the RFCologist in this, and he says the question actually does not >seem to have a well-defined answer... Geoff has consulted the Holy Writs again, at length, and says that to his astonishment, for once they actually appear to agree: white space is not legal in Message-IDs. There remains the question of what to *do* about such a Message-ID, given our preference for tolerance. -- 1961-1969: 8 years of Apollo. | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 1969-1989: 20 years of nothing.| uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu