[NNTP] Format of message-ids

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Fri Dec 31 09:55:04 PST 2004


Charles Lindsey <chl at clerew.man.ac.uk> writes:

> According to 3.5:

>  o  A message-id MUST NOT contain octets other than printable US-ASCII
>       characters.

[...]

> 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.

Yup, that's going to stay.  Regardless of the merits of the restriction,
debate has closed on that part of our draft.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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