From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 18 1999 - 06:15:31 CDT
Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:
> Brian McCauley <B.A.McCauley@bham.ac.uk> writes:
>> There will be a need for very careful management of the transition.
>> There are many ad-hoc procmail and/or perl filters out there for
>> moderation that would break.
> But there is no transition. This has always been a proper way to send
> articles to a moderator. CNews has been doing it for many years. Any
> script that does not cope with it is already broken.
Unfortunately, you're both right. The practice is uncommon enough these
days that there are many ad hoc procmail and Perl moderation systems that
do break when they see such articles, and that's one of the reasons why
you will occasionally see messages with doubled headers in moderated
groups.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>