From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/10995 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Jaeger Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: filling the References header Date: 19 May 1997 08:47:00 +0200 Message-ID: References: <29476.863566240@eeyore.ibcinc.com> <5los45$gjs$1@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035150779 27663 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:52:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:52:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from sandy.calag.com (root@sandy [206.190.83.128]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA19802 for ; Mon, 19 May 1997 02:50:20 -0700 Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by sandy.calag.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA00664 for ; Mon, 19 May 1997 02:49:54 -0700 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id EAA19409 for ; Mon, 19 May 1997 04:49:09 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Mon, 19 May 1997 11:01:54 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 30206 invoked by uid 504); 19 May 1997 09:01:52 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 30200 invoked from network); 19 May 1997 09:01:48 -0000 Original-Received: from birdland.rhein-neckar.de (root@193.197.88.3) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 19 May 1997 09:01:46 -0000 Original-Received: from cthulhu.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by birdland.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.5/8.8.3) with bsmtp id KAA14989; Mon, 19 May 1997 10:57:37 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: from arthur.rhein-neckar.de by cthulhu.rhein-neckar.de via rsmtp with bsmtp id for ; Mon, 19 May 1997 10:37:30 +0200 (MET DST) (Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #20 built 1996-Oct-4) Original-Received: by arthur.rhein-neckar.de via sendmail with stdio id for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 19 May 1997 08:47:01 +0200 (CEST) (Smail-3.2.0.91 1997-Jan-14 #7 built 1997-Feb-10) Original-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of 19 May 1997 08:31:33 +0200 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.52/XEmacs 20.2 Original-Lines: 30 Original-Xref: altair.xemacs.org dgnus-list:1378 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:10995 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:10995 >>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: Lars> Jason L Tibbitts III 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 -- Andreas Jaeger aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de jaeger@informatik.uni-kl.de Altenwoogstr. 31 67655 Kaiserslautern, Germany Phone +49 631 3403051 Fax/Modem +49 631 3403052 http://www.student.uni-kl.de/~ajaeger/