Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: C news: expire, and batcher
Message-ID: <1990Aug27.172424.18636@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <26817@usc.edu>
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 90 17:24:24 GMT

In article <26817@usc.edu> blarson@dianne.usc.edu (bob larson) writes:
>I've modified batcher not to include Xref: headers.  Actually quite
>simple.  If there is demand, I'll post an unoffical patch here, but
>would prefer that it just gets incorperated into the next offical
>patch.

Unless you've found a really clever way of doing it, it's not likely,
I'm afraid.  You can't just use egrep, because whatever you do has to
affect headers *only*.  As mentioned in notebook/rfcerrata, we consider
the don't-send-Xref requirement to be erroneous, since no news system
we're aware of -- including B2.xx, which the RFC is supposed to be
describing -- implements it.  We'd be willing to comply with it but
only if it was essentially free, and imposing significant processing
in the batching isn't.
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