From: Greg Berigan (gberigan@cse.unl.edu)
Date: Mon Nov 24 1997 - 10:20:27 CST
Maurizio Codogno <mau@beatles.cselt.it> wrote:
> I thought that there was consensus about the possibility to trim
> the References: line, leaving at least the first and the last three
> message IDs. Shouldn't it be added here?
IMO, such trimming should never be necessary. Instead we should demand
that all news agents accept arbitrarily long References lists; no more
fixed-length arrays. If they have trouble communicating them to servers
they can use continuation lines. If a programmer is so inept as not to
know how to allocate dynamic character strings then that programmer
shouldn't be writing news software.