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Re: mail vs. news ???

2003-02-21 15:13:51

Mark Crispin writes:
  [ USENET message-id restrictions ]
What are those restrictions?

No comments; no spaces inside IDs; etc.

You should be happy about the restrictions. After all, your software has
never handled RFC 822 comments and spaces correctly. For example, I just
fired up Pine 4.44 on the RFC 822 example

   From: Muhammed.(I am the greatest) Ali @(the)Vegas.WBA

and received the error message 
``INVALID_ADDRESS(_at_)(_dot_)SYNTAX-ERROR(_dot_)'' when I
tried to import that address into the Pine address book.

---D. J. Bernstein, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics,
Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago

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