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From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: C News milestone
Message-ID: <gr#mg2.r[1@smurf.sub.org>
Date: 29 Nov 90 14:42:44 GMT
References: <NS|^SD|@rpi.edu> <4_377B@xds13.ferranti.com> <1990Nov27.230750.3478@looking.on.ca>
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
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In news.software.b, article <1990Nov27.230750.3478@looking.on.ca>,
  brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
< 
< In fact, the set of no-nos is:
< 
< 		'<>"():,; \t[]@\\
< 
Unfortunately, some of these work in message-IDs quite well and without any
problems whatever (e.g. colon, brackets), while e.g. a slash / would be
valid except that it is the separator for UNIX path names.

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