Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Subject: Re: C News milestone
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 90 21:11:49 GMT
Message-ID: <1990Nov29.211149.12175@looking.on.ca>
References: <NS|^SD|@rpi.edu> <4_377B@xds13.ferranti.com> <1990Nov27.230750.3478@looking.on.ca> <gr#mg2.r[1@smurf.sub.org>

In article <gr#mg2.r[1@smurf.sub.org> urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) writes:
>In news.software.b, article <1990Nov27.230750.3478@looking.on.ca>,
>  brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
>< 
>< In fact, the set of no-nos is:
>< 
>< 		'<>"():,; \t[]@\\
>< 
>Unfortunately, some of these work in message-IDs quite well and without any
>problems whatever (e.g. colon, brackets), while e.g. a slash / would be
>valid except that it is the separator for UNIX path names.

They "work" in message-ids, that's true.   In the sense that most of the
current software allows them.  But they are not valid according to the
standard -- except when quoted, as somebody correctly pointed out.

Colons as an example of something you're wrong on.  I used to put colons in
message-ids, but I got a couple of complaints.   I still put in single quotes
without complaint, but I am removing this in the next version of my ClariNet
message processor.
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473
