Posted by Toby A Inkster on 03/23/07 13:27

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.
[...]

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