Path: utzoo!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!decwrl!ames!vsi1!lmb From: lmb@vicom.com (Larry Blair) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Why are C news Message-IDs so non-minimalist? Message-ID: <1989Dec1.005459.1139@vicom.com> Date: 1 Dec 89 00:54:59 GMT References: <1989Nov30.162609.9435@phri.nyu.edu> Reply-To: lmb@vicom.COM (Larry Blair) Organization: Vicom Systems Inc., Fremont, CA Lines: 23 In article <1989Nov30.162609.9435@phri.nyu.edu> roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes: = = Given the underlying minimalist philosophy of C news, I'm surprised =they went from the minimalist B news Message-IDs of the form =to the verbose style, which =is only exceeded in verbosity by Andrew Message-IDs. Why? As far as I can =tell, it's just another 18 or so bytes to bloat the length of messages and =(more importantly) history files. This is an important question that has been asked repeatedly. Besides causing the citation line to run on (like the one above), it enlarges the history and causes rn to barf on the long References: line. Even though there have been informal patches posted to fix this, the vast majority of C News sites are reluctant to include anything the is non- official. Henry and Geoff: this _is_ a problem that is growing as the use of C News grows. It affects everyone no matter what news system they are running. It is only fair to the entire net that you post an official patch to reduce the size of the Message-ID:. -- Larry Blair ames!vsi1!lmb lmb@vicom.com