From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 20 1999 - 11:09:52 CDT
Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:
> No, we are telling them that they MUST accept References lines up to 998
> octets long and, if continuation lines are present, an arbitrary number
> of them. But this is no problem for relayers and servers - they just
> copy them like other headers.
To be fair, the reason why this has been an issue is because it's not just
like the other headers; it goes into the overview and is the longest
header that does so. That's why there has been breakage in the past.
Very old versions of INN handle relaying the header just fine, but don't
manage to copy continuation lines into the overview so clients don't see
them. (This has been fixed for a while.)
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>