Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Subject: Re: C News milestone
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 90 23:07:50 GMT
Message-ID: <1990Nov27.230750.3478@looking.on.ca>
References: <1990Nov13.215847.23684@zoo.toronto.edu> <=8:6F68@xds13.ferranti.com> <NS|^SD|@rpi.edu> <4_377B@xds13.ferranti.com>

In article <4_377B@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Regarding my message <=8:6F68@xds13.ferranti.com>:
>
>In article <NS|^SD|@rpi.edu> tale@rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) writes:
>> It should get put in "Message IDs which don't conform to the RFCs".
>> 1036 says quite clearly that the form should be "<unique@full_domain_name>"
>> in order to conform with 822.
>
>I don't understand what you're getting at. <=8:6F68@xds13.ferranti.com>
>consists of a unique string followed by this system's full domain name.

RFC822 says that message-ids must be  <valid-domain-email-address> which
is not just <unique@domain> but <validusername@domain>, which means that
certain characters are out, like colons, commas, etc.

In fact, the set of no-nos is:

		'<>"():,; \t[]@\\

quote, angles, double quote, parens, colon, comma, semi, space, tab,
brackets, at-sign, backslash.
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473