From: Henry Spencer (henry@spsystems.net)
Date: Fri Jun 23 2000 - 12:58:46 CDT
On 23 Jun 2000, Ralph Babel wrote:
> ...all agree that short IDs are desirable and that the limits
> need to be _documented_ somehow, these limits are _not_
> an intrinsic part of the netnews message _format_ ...
That is an unsupported assertion, not a self-evident fact. Format
specifications commonly define length limits on the things that go into
the format. It is eminently reasonable to keep news interoperability
issues in a single document, rather than artificially splitting them over
two or more.
Henry Spencer
henry@spsystems.net