Re: (no subject)

Peter Occil <[email protected]> Tue, 24 Jul 2018 00:33:12 -0400
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So in that case, would a reasonable update to RFC 2369 be to impose a chara=
cter limit of 998 characters on list header fields, including the List-Unsu=
bscribe header field?

--Peter Occil


From: John R Levine
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2018 12:28 AM
To: Peter Occil
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [ietf-822] (no subject)

[=E2=80=A6]  If it were my library I'd=20
throw an error if the list-unsubscribe header didn't fit in 998 characters=
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so the person calling it would know to fix whatever was generating giant=20
URL strings.

Regards,
John Levine, [email protected], Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly


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998 characters </p><p class=3DMsoNormal>so the person calling it would know=
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</p><p class=3DMsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p><p class=3DMsoNormal>Regards,=
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, Trumansburg NY</p><p class=3DMsoNormal>Please consider the environment be=
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