Re: Recently observed nonconforming Message-IDs (discussion)

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1991 04:28

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In article <1991Jun12.071111.29652@twinsun.com> eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert) writes:
>Commonly used news transport software accepts many Message-IDs that do
>not conform to the Internet RFCs (1036, 822, and 1123)....

Uh, do bear in mind that RFC1036 message IDs are much more leniently
defined than 822/1123 message IDs.  While it may be unwise to use news
message IDs that are not legal mail message IDs, it is not disastrous.
-- 
"We're thinking about upgrading from    | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
SunOS 4.1.1 to SunOS 3.5."              |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry

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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Recently observed nonconforming Message-IDs (discussion)
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Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1991 04:28:34 GMT
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