Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 03/23/07 21:44

Toby A Inkster wrote:
> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>
>> IMHO, it's not a good idea to use '<' and '>' in message id's because
>> they have special meanings.
>
> Yet, they have been mandated as part of Usenet Message-IDs since RFC 1036
> came out twenty years ago.
>
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1036.txt
>
> | 2.1.5. Message-ID
> |
> [...]
> | Message-ID's have the syntax:
> | <string not containing blank or ">">
> [...]
> | The angle brackets are considered part of the Message-ID. Thus, in
> | references to the Message-ID, such as the ihave/sendme and cancel
> | control messages, the angle brackets are included.
> [...]
>

Toby,

That's true when viewing the message via usenet. However, you're link
views it through the http protocol - and that's a different story.

'<' and '>' are not valid characters in a link and must be escaped to
their hex equivalents (%3c and %3e, respectively).

http://message-id.net/%3c2r0v64-o98.ln1@ophelia.g5n.co.uk%3e

would be the correct link.

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