Re: Issues outstanding

[Henry Spencer <henry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Frank Ellermann wrote:
> ACK.  There is already a strange restriction, the limit 250 for
> a complete Message-ID in NNTP.  AFAIK a domain can have up to
> 253 characters (actually 255 minus overhead used for DNS), and
> 2822 mumbles something about 64 char.s for the local part.  If
> I add this I arrive at 320 (incl. <@>) instead of 250...

The 250 limit for news message IDs comes from son-of-1036, which was
essentially documenting the implementation limits of common news software. 

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx