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>>>>> "KK" == Karl Kleinpaste <karl@jprc.com> writes:

KK> On the one hand, this is an utterly stupid question to have to
KK> answer. Any "new" mail-serving program which imposes such severe line
KK> length limits of that sort has, in the very first analysis, violated
KK> the Robustness Principle.

I'll add for funnies that, as the owner of this list, I see bunches of fun
bounces due to this.  Folks at cs.cmu.edu, what crappy mailer are you
running there that _bounces_ mail if a header is over 510 characters?

It's off topic, but I'll also add that I get a lot of bounces doe to
non-ASCII characters in the headers.  Yes, my mailing list manager should
encode them as it sees them (though what character set to use is a mystery)
but whatever is generating them (which is probably Gnus) shouldn't be doing
so.  The incidence of this has gone up with the advent of pgnus.

 - J<