[NNTP] Format of message-ids
Charles Lindsey
chl at clerew.man.ac.uk
Fri Dec 31 02:15:51 PST 2004
According to 3.5:
o A message-id MUST NOT contain octets other than printable US-ASCII
characters.
Whereas according to RFC 2822, it can contain NO-WS-CTLs.
Which is stupid (fails the "can you read it out over the telephone" test),
but there it is.
So there is a move afoot in USEFOR to make yet one more departure from the
<msg-id> format of RFC 2822 by forbidding such NO-WS-CTLs.
And the grounds for doing this will be "because such <msg-id>s would be
incompatible with the (upcoming) NNTP standard".
So I am just checking here that the above quoted restriction to printable
ASCII is in the current NNTP draft, and is intended to remain so. Note
that I am _not_ asking for any change - I am quite happy with the
current situation and with bringing USEFOR into line with it.
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