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[ Dropping demon.ip.support.pc from the followups. ]

In article <823977867snz@wash.demon.co.uk>,
John Washington  <john@wash.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>But I think you've raised a very interesting point.  Here's
>the source comment with that change:
>
> * Define the size of general purpose buffers (often used to hold
> * subject, newsgroup lines etc.) The original size of 512 can cause
> * overflow problems with some very long header lines.

Some background here.  There is a 512 byte limit in RFC 977, but it is
now interpreted as meaning a limit on the actual protocol lines, not
the header and body lines.  Unlike SMTP, there is no longer understood
to be a limit on header lines, and most news software will cope with
arbitrary lengths - there is no need to image a complete Path line (the
one most likely to legitimately overflow, although I believe some have
been due to overflows of the Newsgroups line as a result of shot gun
cross-posting and velveeta).

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David Woolley, London, England          david@djwhome.demon.co.uk