From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 22 1999 - 16:17:15 CDT
Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:
> Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
>> ARTidok() just checks to see if it's a syntactically valid message ID.
>> In general, I believe you'll find that in most deployed news server
>> software if there historically wasn't a need to parse the header the
>> header wasn't parsed.
> Sure, but what happens when ARTcancel sees stuff beyond the
> syntactically valid message ID?
It looks at the entire contents of the header and sees if the entire
contents represent a syntactically valid message ID. If they don't, it
just ignores the header.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>