From: Kent Landfield (kent@landfield.com)
Date: Mon Nov 24 1997 - 10:26:29 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?
So did I and yes it should.
# 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.
Greg we have carried this discussion to great lengths. Dynamic storage
is just one the issues. Carring around potentially a great deal of extra
bulk for minimal gain is the big one. There needs to be some realistic
guidelines documented here.
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