Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!coolidge From: coolidge@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu (John Coolidge) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: More mashed Message-IDs Message-ID: <1989Sep17.041053.7484@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu> Date: 17 Sep 89 04:10:53 GMT References: <1989Sep16.160104.14146@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu> <1989Sep17.014958.26095@utzoo.uucp> Sender: news@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu Reply-To: coolidge@cs.uiuc.edu Organization: U of Illinois, CS Dept., Systems Research Group Lines: 31 henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: >In article <1989Sep16.160104.14146@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu> I write: >>[Message-ID's in the form Message-ID: (comment)] >> >>Side note: as far as the "real" message id (the part between the angle >>brackets) is concerned these are the same article. Should news be patched >>to use just the text between the brackets as the message id? As far as >>I know, neither B 2.11 or C does this, but it looks ok from my reading >>of RFC1036... >If you read RFC1036 very carefully, the simplified RFC822 syntax it defines >does **NOT** permit parenthesized comments. (The human-readable name in >the From: line is an explicit exception.) A message-ID line cannot include >anything but the message-ID, which must be delimited by `<' and '>'. The >above Message-ID lines are all illegal. The proper response is an error >message and a refusal to forward the article. That's what I thought. I disagree, though, with the proper response: I'd rather see news simply ignore anything past the trailing '>' character, possibly also posting an error notice to the admin or some log file. That way some human intervention can try and discover the cause of the offending header and berate them for non-compliance, but the article is still accepted. In other words: 'be generous with what you accept and conservative with what you generate'. --John -------------------------------------------------------------------------- John L. Coolidge Internet:coolidge@cs.uiuc.edu UUCP:uiucdcs!coolidge Of course I don't speak for the U of I (or anyone else except myself) Copyright 1989 John L. Coolidge. Copying allowed if (and only if) attributed. You may redistribute this article if and only if your recipients may as well.