ietf-nntp On length of message IDs and command arguments
Russ Allbery
rra at stanford.edu
Wed Jul 19 16:30:29 PDT 2000
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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