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: Thu, 29 Nov 90 21:11:49 GMT Message-ID: <1990Nov29.211149.12175@looking.on.ca> References: <4_377B@xds13.ferranti.com> <1990Nov27.230750.3478@looking.on.ca> In article urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) writes: >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. They "work" in message-ids, that's true. In the sense that most of the current software allows them. But they are not valid according to the standard -- except when quoted, as somebody correctly pointed out. Colons as an example of something you're wrong on. I used to put colons in message-ids, but I got a couple of complaints. I still put in single quotes without complaint, but I am removing this in the next version of my ClariNet message processor. -- Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473