Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: C News log file
Message-ID: <1989Jun28.154708.13714@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <2228@vicom.COM> <1989Jun20.211939.7835@utzoo.uucp> <4657@ficc.uu.net> <89Jun27.222123edt.11708@neat.ai.toronto.edu>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 89 15:47:08 GMT

In article <89Jun27.222123edt.11708@neat.ai.toronto.edu> moraes@ai.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes) writes:
>As far as the news transport is concerned, the Subject of an article
>is entirely unimportant - I think it is best left that way. transport
>should not concern itself with contents of the news any more than it
>can help it.

In fact, those who have looked at the code have probably noticed that
C News relaynews doesn't even bother to remember any headers it doesn't
need for its own work.  And the ones it does need, it doesn't parse any
more than it has to.  (Which is why expiry dates go into history as human-
readable dates until the first time expire gets its hands on them.)
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