Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Why are C news message-IDs so non-minimalist?
Message-ID: <1989Dec6.200813.5267@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1989Nov30.162609.9435@phri.nyu.edu> <EZRVsR_00WBFQBElwa@andrew.cmu.edu> <5:CS3_@splut.conmicro.com> <1989Dec3.073310.18501@utzoo.uucp> <YRQVP1@b-tech.mi.org> <12928@polya.Stanford.EDU> <TM+HD^@b-tech.uucp>
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 89 20:08:13 GMT

In article <TM+HD^@b-tech.uucp> zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) writes:
>>>char	string[] = "!#$%^&*_+|-=~`{}'/?ABCDFGHJKLMNPQRSTVWXYZ1234567890";
>>
>Anyone using mkid should remove '/' to accommodate this B news bug.  Does
>anyone foresee any other problems with the character set (even though they
>are legal according to the rfcs)?

I would be a little bit nervous about |~`{} due to the obscenities
sometimes perpetrated when news flows over Bitnet links.
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