Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Blank Space in Message-IDs: legal or not ?
Message-ID: <1990Apr10.163728.2807@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Apr9.195305.10134@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 90 16:37:28 GMT

In article <1990Apr9.195305.10134@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> mike@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Mike Trogni) writes:
>It seems that CNews (an excellent program, IMHO) drops messages
>that have white-space in their message-IDs.  Is this anti-social
>behavior or have I mis-installed something crucial?  My view is 
>that the program should be conservative in what it sends out, 
>liberal in what it accepts...

Message-IDs with white space in them are illegal by all relevant standards.
We subscribe to the "conservative in sending, liberal in acceptance" rule
in general, but white space in message-IDs fouls up too many things by
ruining field numbering.
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