Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: C News milestone
Message-ID: <1990Nov29.041548.26883@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <NS|^SD|@rpi.edu> <4_377B@xds13.ferranti.com> <1990Nov27.230750.3478@looking.on.ca> <846@Snoopy.Logicon.COM>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 90 04:15:48 GMT

In article <846@Snoopy.Logicon.COM> Makey@Snoopy.Logicon.COM (Jeff Makey) writes:
>It is quite clear that any of the objectionable characters are allowed
>by RFC 822 if they are quoted.

Be careful, however, because RFC1036 puts a few extra restrictions on for
news.  (Notably, ">" cannot appear in the message ID no matter what sort
of games you play with quotes.)
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"The average pointer, statistically,    |Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
points somewhere in X." -Hugh Redelmeier| henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry