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: <1989Dec6.200813.5267@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <1989Nov30.162609.9435@phri.nyu.edu> <5:CS3_@splut.conmicro.com> <1989Dec3.073310.18501@utzoo.uucp> <12928@polya.Stanford.EDU> Date: Wed, 6 Dec 89 20:08:13 GMT In article zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) writes: >>>char string[] = "!#$%^&*_+|-=~`{}'/?ABCDFGHJKLMNPQRSTVWXYZ1234567890"; >> >Anyone using mkid should remove '/' to accommodate this B news bug. Does >anyone foresee any other problems with the character set (even though they >are legal according to the rfcs)? I would be a little bit nervous about |~`{} due to the obscenities sometimes perpetrated when news flows over Bitnet links. -- 1233 EST, Dec 7, 1972: | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology last ship sails for the Moon. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu