🚀 go-pugleaf

Chris Croughton (chris@keris.demon.co.uk) wrote:

> In which case, this turns into a request and a bug report for SNEWS.
> The request is to split the References line in the followup at (say) 80
> characters (or rather, the preceding whitespace).  The bug report is -
> look at the following:

> From Richard's message to which I am following up:

> >References: <817087024snx@holly.demon.co.uk>
> > <4903ni$e40@gryphon.looking-glass.org> <817429693snx@holly.demon.co.uk>
> > <817464773snz@keris.demon.co.uk>

> The line in this message:

> References: <817087024snx@holly.demon.co.uk> <JCnjVrA1jbuwEAow@turnpike.com>

> It seems that SNEWS doesn't cope with continuation on References lines
> at all, it just ignores them...

I recall that this is the case as there is some maximum length of
references that causes (used to cause) problems. AIUI it  is not
mandatory to qoute the entire references header, only the preceding
article ID.

> Is "son of 1036" on Demon?  I can't see any reference in /pub/doc/rfc
> (the index doesn't give any clues either).  Whatr is the status of the
> document?  If it's so important, what's stopping it being a proper RFC
> so everyone can reference it?

All the RFC's and Drafts should be on the ftp server under
/pub/mirrors/internic.

-- 
Malcolm S. Muir
Sunderland
England