Message from Greg Andruk: ietf-nntp NNTP and 16-bit charsets

Stan O. Barber sob at verio.net
Thu May 3 20:41:41 PDT 2001


Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> wrote:

[long lines]
> I've heard that C News has a problem with them; I'm not sure how widely
> deployed C News is still.

C News itself seems okay, but nntpd's spawn.c likes to break long
lines into NNTP_STRLEN [512 chars] chunks and insert linefeeds.  I'm
not sure if that's intentional behavior (it's just possible that some
flavor of inews or rnews needed protection, anyone know?), but it will
break all the same.



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