Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Why are C news message-IDs so non-minimalist? Message-ID: <1989Dec3.073310.18501@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <1989Nov30.162609.9435@phri.nyu.edu> <5:CS3_@splut.conmicro.com> Date: Sun, 3 Dec 89 07:33:10 GMT In article <5:CS3_@splut.conmicro.com> jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) writes: >Not all C news message IDs are 47K long...look at mine. It was generated >by a program written by Jon Zeeff (zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us), and >the program is easy to splice into the C news system. Jay, you might want to check whether Jon's program is using both uppercase and lowercase in its message-ids. It shouldn't, since the "local part" of the message-id (before the "@") is case-insensitive. -- Mars can wait: we've barely | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology started exploring the Moon. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu