Re: filling the References header

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>]

>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes:

Lars> Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@hpc.uh.edu> writes:
>> BTW, the practical length limit is a paltry 254 characters if you don't
>> want to bounce off of idiotic sites. 

Lars> I've never seen anything as extreme as that.  Then again, I chose who
Lars> I communicate with with care.  
You've got some weeks ago a bug report because our (broken :-( ) mail system at
university is MMDF and MMDF in its standard configuration only allows 
254 characters per header line :-(.
Quite a lot of mail coming from xemacs-beta had reference headers
longer than 254 chars and everybody used Gnus.
All mails with more than 254 chars went directly to my postmaster who
forwarded them to me, getting more and more friendly ;-) in his daily
bunch of forwarded mails:-(.

Lars> If their mail software is broken, then they're probably not worth
Lars> talking to.  :-)
Or they should upgrade. I finally convinced our local admin to patch
MMDF to use up to 1024 characters per line.

Andreas
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