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From: IRWIN@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Irwin Tillman)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Why are C news message-IDs so non-minimalist?
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Date: 8 Dec 89 00:26:51 GMT
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In article <1989Dec6.200813.5267@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp
(Henry Spencer) 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.

In addition, I'd suggest that you avoid the circumflex.  It also tends to get
munged when news flows over links that don't do ASCII/EBCDIC translation well.