ietf-nntp NNTP and 16-bit charsets

[Russell Vincent]

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 01:06:20PM +0000, Charles Lindsey wrote:
> In <yln18w1nd3.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:
> 
> >> It might also be argued that forbidding NUL is unnecessary (does any
> >> current implementation in fact have a problem with it?),
> 
> >Yes.
> 
> Fairy Nuff! But it would be of interest to hear which ones, and what the
> problem is.

Diablo uses a NUL to separate articles in multi-article spool files,
although having a NUL in an article doesn't cause a problem unless
you need to rebuild the history file by scanning the spool (and hence
scan for articles separated by a NUL).

>From another email talking about setting a maximum line length:
> OK. Well you have reported that there is no serious problem in INN, and
> nobody has reported anything different for any other server, so it looks
> like it is OK. Anyone with evidence to the contrary please present it
> ASAP.

I believe Diablo can handle any line length in the article body.

 -Russell