ietf-nntp On length of message IDs and command arguments

[Russ Allbery]

FYI, current development versions of INN now have this setting and comment
in include/nntp.h:

/* Consensus on the USEFOR mailing list in June of 2000 indicates that the
   next revision of the Usenet article standard will limit the length of the
   message ID to 250 octets.  This is also the limit recommended by
   son-of-1036.

   You can increase this limit if you want, but don't increase it above 497.
   RFC 977 limits each line of the NNTP protocol to 512 octets, including
   the terminating CRLF.  For a message ID to be passed using the TAKETHIS
   command, it can therefore be a maximum of 501 octets.  The November 1999
   draft of the replacement RFC limits it to 497 octets.

   Both Cyclone and DNews are known to reject message IDs longer than 500
   octets as of June of 2000.  DNews has been reported to have problems with
   message IDs of 494 octets. */

#define NNTP_MSGID_MAXLEN       250

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>