From: Andrew Gierth (andrew@erlenstar.demon.co.uk)
Date: Mon Jun 12 2000 - 17:29:06 CDT
>>>>> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
> Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:
>> 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 :-( ).
Russ> They already have something fairly definite. It's specifically
Russ> stated that the arguments to any NNTP command are limited to
Russ> 497 octets, and the message ID has to be used as an argument to
Russ> an NNTP command to transfer an article.
FWIW, INN (2.2.x, anyway) seems to be violating this; it will happily
accept and propagate an article with a longer ID, including sending
out CHECK/TAKETHIS commands that exceed the NNTP limit.
-- Andrew.