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From: cfe+@andrew.cmu.edu (Craig F. Everhart)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Message-ID bugs in nntp and netnews?
Message-ID: <YWMtOPy00VsLQ=6lFN@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 13 Apr 88 16:26:03 GMT
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Organization: Carnegie Mellon University
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Thanks for the reply, and for an example of another system that assumes that
its Message-IDs won't be case-folded.

(By the way, Eric Raymond tells me that ``3.0 never lowercases or otherwise
modifies article-IDs. The length limit is presently 64, but could be changed
simply by tweaking a #define,'' so that suggests that the future won't
necessarily have this problem.)

RFC822 (and at least the ucbvax gateway) prohibits the following characters,
besides control characters, space, and rubout:
        "(),.:;<>@[\]
Looks like you are trying to use most of them (in particular:
        "(),.:;[\]
), so I'd recommend that you pull those last 10 characters and stick with a
base-80 representation.

                Craig Everhart
                Andrew message system