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<quoted-string>s in <msg-id>s (Re: Compatibility wit Netnews (was I-D ACTION:draft-resnick-2822upd-01.txt))

2007-05-01 22:17:03

"Charles Lindsey" <chl(_at_)clerew(_dot_)man(_dot_)ac(_dot_)uk> writes in 
gmane.ietf.rfc822:

In <p06300002c25bc5f3f74b(_at_)[216(_dot_)43(_dot_)25(_dot_)67]> Pete Resnick 
<presnick(_at_)qualcomm(_dot_)com> writes:

On 4/27/07 at 7:02 PM +0000, Charles Lindsey wrote:
But if 2822-bis is prepared to go further than that, then it is fine with
me. The only question is whether people ever (or ever need to) use
<quoted-string>s in <msg-id>s. I looked in all the news articles and
emails on my computer and found no example of it, but my sample is far too
small. So has anyone else seen that in the wild?

At least on my archive folder have some:

$ egrep ^Message-ID: elm-mail-backup | fgrep '"'
Message-ID: <"xlink100.x.795:21.07.96.17.56.16"@xlink.net>
Message-ID: <"xlink100.x.564:21.07.96.17.47.43"@xlink.net>
Message-ID: <"xlink100.x.588:21.07.96.17.48.05"@xlink.net>
Message-ID: <"xlink100.x.798:21.07.96.17.50.08"@xlink.net>
Message-ID: <"xlink100.x.798:21.07.96.17.50.08"@xlink.net>
Message-ID: <"xlink100.x.621:23.07.96.07.52.42"@xlink.net>
Message-ID: <"xlink100.x.080:21.07.96.10.22.30"@xlink.net>
Message-ID: <"xlink100.x.657:21.07.96.08.18.19"@xlink.net>
Message-ID: <"xlink100.x.900:21.07.96.07.54.41"@xlink.net>
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These archived messages seems to be from year 1996

/ Kari Hurtta