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From: weening@polya.Stanford.EDU (Joe Weening)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Why are C news message-IDs so non-minimalist?
Message-ID: <12928@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 5 Dec 89 18:30:18 GMT
References: <1989Nov30.162609.9435@phri.nyu.edu> <EZRVsR_00WBFQBElwa@andrew.cmu.edu> <5:CS3_@splut.conmicro.com> <1989Dec3.073310.18501@utzoo.uucp> <YRQVP1@b-tech.mi.org>
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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In article <YRQVP1@b-tech.mi.org> zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) writes:
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>/* string of some valid message id characters */
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>char	string[] = "!#$%^&*_+|-=~`{}'/?ABCDFGHJKLMNPQRSTVWXYZ1234567890";

This code, or something like it, is failing with older B News software
that doesn't like "/" in the Message-ID's, because it uses them to
construct filenames in /tmp.  If you are currently doing this, please
consider changing your code for the sake of others' sanity.