From: Bruce Lilly (blilly@erols.com)
Date: Sun Jun 08 2003 - 17:48:35 CDT
Charles Lindsey wrote:
> [There was a suggestion to reduce that 71 to 66 in order to allow such a
> newsgoup-name to fit in the on the first line of a Followup-To-header
> without exceeding 79 characters.]
Just so there's no confusion, *I* made no such suggestion.
Moreover, there's nothing magical about the number 79 and header
field lines. There's a 78-octet advisory limit and a mandatory
998-octet limit.