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.
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