ietf-nntp NNTP and 16-bit charsets

[Clive D.W. Feather]

Russ Allbery said:
>> Based on other related discussions, I think that the sender needs to
>> assume:
[...]
>> - the space between CRLF pairs should be no more than 510 octets apart;
> nnrpd rejects articles with lines >1024 characters; this is also a bug in
> INN that needs to get fixed (I didn't realize that it had this problem
> until fairly recently).  Apart from that, in transit, INN handles
> unlimited length lines in the article body, and so do all the other
> servers I'm aware of.  Is this provision really needed?

I was trying to be conservative. What does the majority think ?

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