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From: grr@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,news.admin
Subject: Re: Negative Article ID's
Message-ID: <1821@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 2-May-87 16:22:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.1821
Posted: Sat May  2 16:22:31 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 5-May-87 04:42:24 EDT
References: <3673@drutx.ATT.COM> <1987Apr27.131502.8062@sq.uucp>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
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Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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Keywords: Any ideas?
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In article <1987Apr27.131502.8062@sq.uucp> msb@sq.UUCP (Mark Brader) writes:

>It should perhaps be pointed out, in case anyone else is confused,
>that the Message-ID in news is simply a string, and any site is allowed
>to generate it in any format they like.

It should also be pointed out that arbitrarily long Message-ID's and
Message-ID's containing slashes will cause various problems on various
verisons of news still in wide usage.

The minus signs do, however appear harmless.

A good place to let common sense, rather then the letter of the law rule, huh?

-- 
George Robbins - now working for,	uucp: {ihnp4|seismo|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
but no way officially representing	arpa: cbmvax!grr@seismo.css.GOV
Commodore, Engineering Department	fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)