From: Henry Spencer (henry@spsystems.net)
Date: Thu Mar 02 2000 - 11:33:20 CST
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Charles Lindsey wrote:
> I think the thing which needs tackling first is the matter of whitespace
> in the Newsgroups header...
> The change itself is trivial to make AFAICS. In Cnews, you just remove the
> check that rnews insists on making for this case.
No, it's not quite that simple. The check is being done because later
code isn't prepared to do the right thing with the white space -- it just
gets taken as part of the newsgroup names! (At least, that was the
situation last time I looked.) The white space would have to be stripped
out, or the parsing code would have to cope. Not hard in principle, but
sorting out the details would take some work.
> Note that warning was given long ago in son-of-1036 that this relaxation
> was going to happen. In fact, I am surprised that Henry did not then
> follow his own advice.
It was Geoff's code, so I was reluctant to mess with it. We got started
on updating C News to match son-of-1036, but never finished.
Henry Spencer
henry@spsystems.net