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From: billy@MIX.COM
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Subject: Re: Upcoming New Newsreader for the Mac: Signal
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 20:02:31 +0000 (UTC)
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Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> wrote, quoting me:

> > Next is insufficient (static) buffer space, along with handling
> > excessively long subjects.  And references.
> 
> That reminds me that some months ago I got a complaint that the newsreader
> I was using (probably Pan or Python Newsreader at that time) was inserting
> <cr><lf> into reference headers.
> 
> Before I even read the thread myself someone else had responded with a
> comment that the appropriate RFC said this was legal.

Yes, it's legal to put each message id on its own continuation line.
But, at least with some feeder servers, the overall line length limit
still applies.

> You can't look at a glass as half full or half empty if it's overflowing.

Billy Y..
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