From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Jun 12 2000 - 05:55:42 CDT
In <yln1ku4jsl.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
>I'd like to propose that we limit the length of message IDs for
>compatibility with NNTP. Having different restrictions on the news
>article vs. what can be done via NNTP leaves us with the possibility of
>generating correctly formed news articles which cannot be transferred via
>the most common method of transferring news, something that seems wrong to
>me.
I think you should try to persuade the NNTP group to put something
definite in, then (and good luck to you if you can get any response out of
them :-( ).
Actually, doing nothing is not so bad. If you post with a long Message-ID,
then it will be refused by the first NNTP server it meets. Maybe some
other transport will route around it, maybe not. Certainly your article
will propagate but poorly, if at all. Maybe you get some message back from
the NNTP server (if you were close enough to it). But nothing dies (except
your article). So I think a SHOULD would be strong enough if we decide to
say anything (generally speaking, I am opposed to arbitrary limits).
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