Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: C News milestone Message-ID: Date: 29 Nov 90 14:49:08 GMT References: <1990Nov13.215847.23684@zoo.toronto.edu> <=8:6F68@xds13.ferranti.com> <4_377B@xds13.ferranti.com> <1990Nov27.230750.3478@looking.on.ca> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 15 In article <1990Nov27.230750.3478@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes: > RFC822 says that message-ids must be which > is not just but , which means that > certain characters are out, like colons, commas, etc. Valid user name? That sort of implies you should be able to handle mail directed to the message ID... hmmm... > [no] quote, angles, double quote, parens, colon, comma, semi, space, tab, > brackets, at-sign, backslash. And, for the sake of B News sites that create temp files that match the message ID for locking, it's a good idea to eschew slashes... Anyway, I'm compliant now... you want a copy of this version of mkid? -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com