Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: NNTPD hates Message-IDs with TWO '@'s in them.  (BIG log file attached to this posting)
Message-ID: <1991Jun13.043253.20660@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1991 04:32:53 GMT
References: <1991Jun9.232828.17956@europa.asd.contel.com> <5930@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <5930@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> sob@tmc.edu (Stan Barber) writes:
>One might argue that if Cnews throws away articles with bad dates, why doesn't
>it throw away articles with bad Message-ids?

What is a "bad" message ID?  RFC1036 does not outlaw multiple @s, although
it warns you that RFC822 does.
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