Pascal,

Not so long ago (27 Aug 04) you wrote to me:
 ASA>> But in this case you introduce violations of FTS standard which
 ASA>> explicitly defines syntax of MSGID kludge. This is bad.
 PS> The FTS standard doesn't forbid spaces in the "serialno"
part of the
 PS> MSGID, so programs are free to put pretty much anything into the MSGID
 PS> that is unique to a single message. The standard doesn't even say that
 PS> the first part has to be a FidoNet address. Any unique identifier for
 PS> the system is okay.

The "serialno" is "eight character hexadecimal number"
according to the FTS-0009. Does that mean that spaces are not forbidden?
I'm not native speaker, but I'm pretty sure they are :-)

WBR, Alexander

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