Re: Long references headers

Ben C. O. Grimm - Libertatis Praesidium NL - (BenGrimm@xs4all.nl)
Sat, 21 Dec 1996 00:43:40 +0000

Dennis McClain-Furmanski wrote:

> I've not had any very long reference lines broken like that.
> They've all been intact. I have seen broken newsgroup headers on massive
> crossposts, but they were that way on the server.

Yarn doesn't split long reference lines. There are newsreaders that
can't handle reference lines that are longer than 512 positions, like
(some versions) of NN. Sometimes articles posted by newsreaders like
that show up with a part of the reference line in the body of the
article. I think Yarn can handle (almost) infinite reference lines.
There's one way to find out: keep posting in the same thread in
alt.cascades :)

Ben.