Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: C news compatibility with NNTP Message-ID: <1989Aug20.030816.29684@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <1989Aug9.164003.20669@utzoo.uucp> <6717@dayton.UUCP> <1989Aug17.171000.23302@utzoo.uucp> <64033@uunet.UU.NET> <1989Aug18.102335.17269@utstat.uucp> <6722@cs.utexas.edu> <1909@ucsd.EDU> <6725@cs.utexas.edu> Date: Sun, 20 Aug 89 03:08:16 GMT In article <6725@cs.utexas.edu> fletcher@cs.utexas.edu (Fletcher Mattox) writes: >... However, now that you mention protocol, >the message-id IS part of the news protocol, and I dearly wish >there were some unanimity wrt case sensitivity ... Well, the existing standards are consistent and unambiguous. It is unfortunate that no existing news system implements what they call for... although the sheer ugliness of what they call for may have something to do with that. -- V7 /bin/mail source: 554 lines.| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 1989 X.400 specs: 2200+ pages. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu