From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Mar 06 2000 - 05:21:04 CST
In <200003031530.KAA11932@darkstar.prodigy.com> davidsen@prodigy.com (Bill Davidsen) writes:
>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)
Well our syntax currently forbids comments in Newsgroup headers (or do you
need that some readers simply 'decorate' the Newsgroups header as
displayed)?
>Perhaps whitespace could be ignored after a comma, and to continue the
>comma would have to directly follow the newsgroup name.
I don't think there is any real problem in implementing this correctly.
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