From: Lars Balker Rasmussen <lbr@mjolner.dk>
Subject: Re: GNKSA and Gnus
Date: 05 Jan 1998 23:02:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0f4t3ilgu5.fsf@fenris.mjolner.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: John Moreno's message of "Mon, 5 Jan 98 16:22:04 -0500"
John Moreno <phenix@interpath.com> writes:
> It's going to have to either require or allow it to be truncated at some
> point - otherwise you'll have references lines that grow infinitely long.
> I know of several threads that are more than a year old - I hate to
> think how long they would be if software didn't truncate the header.
Good argument. However, it also shoots down the definition in
son-of-1036, where some IDs are sacred. In a year-long thread it's easy
to imagine the first, the latest and all IDs with _-_ in them to be more
than 1000 chars long. Then what ID should be cut?
--
Lars Balker Rasmussen, Software Engineer, Mjolner Informatics ApS
lbr@mjolner.dk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-01-05 22:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-01-05 21:22 John Moreno
1998-01-05 22:02 ` Lars Balker Rasmussen [this message]
[not found] <199712280107.UAA02498@mail.interpath.net>
1998-01-05 19:54 ` Per Abrahamsen
1998-01-05 20:31 ` Russ Allbery
1998-01-12 22:15 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-01-12 22:45 ` Russ Allbery
1998-02-02 18:25 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-01-12 22:48 ` Hrvoje Niksic
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1998-01-04 22:04 [John Moreno <phenix@interpath.com>] " John Moreno
1998-01-08 9:14 ` Russ Allbery
1998-01-04 21:45 [John Moreno <phenix@interpath.com>] " Russ Allbery
1998-01-04 22:27 ` John Moreno
1998-01-04 23:58 ` Matt Simmons
1998-01-05 13:42 ` Robert Bihlmeyer
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