From: Bill Davidsen (davidsen@prodigy.com)
Date: Fri Mar 03 2000 - 09:30:35 CST
chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk (Charles Lindsey) noted:
> I think the thing which needs tackling first is the matter of whitespace
> in the Newsgroups header. That is the only feature where you cannot use
> the new functionality until large number of relayers worldwide have made
> the change (so we are talking a couple of years, at least).
>
> The change itself is trivial to make AFAICS. In Cnews, you just remove the
> check that rnews insists on making for this case. After that, it all goes
> through, I think. I imagine much the same applies in INN - just remove the
> check. In which case a simple patch for both INN v1 and v2 systems would
> do the trick.
I dimly remember that some news client puts comments (!!) after
whitespace in the newsgroups line, does anyone remember anything on
this? Like:
Newsgroups: alt.sex (talk about human sexuality)
Perhaps whitespace could be ignored after a comma, and to continue the
comma would have to directly follow the newsgroup name.
Just thinking, I have no emitional attachment to this ;-)
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