Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!rutgers!topaz.rutgers.edu!msmith From: msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mark Robert Smith) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: brentp@microsoft Keywords: enough! Message-ID: Date: 14 Oct 88 03:55:56 GMT References: <16262@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <16268@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <9073@bigtex.uucp> <217@ispi.UUCP> Organization: M. R. Smith Consulting, New Brunswick, NJ Lines: 20 To: jbayer@ispi.UUCP In article <217@ispi.UUCP> jbayer@ispi.UUCP (id for use with uunet/usenet) writes: > A possible solution to this is to manually edit the offending article > and replace the tab with a space. That will at least keep that copy > from propogating itself ad-infinitium > Jonathan Bayer NO! Don't do this! The RFC states that NO white space (spaces or tabs) is allowed in a message id. You should pull the tab out completely to fix the problem. Mark -- Mark Smith (alias Smitty) "Be careful when looking into the distance, RPO 1604; CN 5063 that you do not miss what is right under your nose." New Brunswick, NJ 08903 {backbone}!rutgers!topaz.rutgers.edu!msmith msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu Who cares in '88?