From: "Dan Kohn" <dan(_at_)dankohn(_dot_)com>
Precedence: bulk
It has been suggested that some legal but unused RFC 2822 Message-ID's
will break a significant amount of deployed news infrastructure. If, in
fact, we're not able to find any existing software that generates such
"dangerous" Message-IDs, what would ietf-822 folks think about
tightening the legal-to-generate Message-ID definition when RFC 2822
moves to draft standard? This would encourage the trend toward using
RFC 2822 as a universal Internet Messaging Format document, which can be
used across mail and news.
I believe having a Usenet format document that updates RFC 2822 on the
standards track would be a very good thing, especially if all of the
changes are like messageid: of the form of moving more syntax into the
obsolete section and further restricting what is generated.
Larry