Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Lines
Message-ID: <1989Sep8.165025.18604@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <5200@looking.on.ca> <1989Aug30.052459.1166@vicom.com> <1989Aug30.204324.2675@paris.ics.uci.edu> <1989Aug30.225332.18770@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu> <1989Aug31.174054.15398@paris.ics.uci.edu> <1989Aug31.234545.23296@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu> <1989Sep6.205625.26565@utzoo.uucp>
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 89 16:50:25 GMT

In article <1989Sep6.205625.26565@utzoo.uucp> I wrote:
>... We mess with Path and Xref because we
>must, and delete a few archaic or vestigial headers...

One or two moderators have expressed some anxiety about this, wondering if
their carefully-crafted headers are going to get squashed.  The full list
of headers that C News seeks out and destroys, at present, is:

	Date-Received:
	Received:
	Posted:
	Posting-Version:
	Relay-Version:
	Illegal-Object:

These are all thoroughly obsolete, relevant only to an earlier site and
wrong for the one receiving the article, just plain junk, or all of the
above.  (Long-time news gurus will probably recognize everything in this
list except Illegal-Object, which is there because some news around here
goes via mail, and some sites hereabouts have this incredible whining
mailer that insists on inserting these turds into the headers of almost
every message.)
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