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From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Strange Header
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Date: 11 Oct 90 08:00:19 GMT
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In article <1990Oct2.185123.8683@mccc.uucp> pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) writes:
>In article <1990Oct1.151249.16328@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>=Pnews is part of rn (I think), and does not come with C News.  If it is
>=feeding empty header lines into inews, that is a bug.  I would hope that
>=people experiencing this have fixed Pnews.
>
>Oops!  Sorry.  Well, Pnews ain't fixed yet.  Buy why aren't others
>having the same problem.  Must be something I'm doing during Configure???

Apparently nobody cared about empty news header lines until C News came
along, so Pnews was never fixed.  Another testimony to the joys of
reinvention!  Anyway, I have the following in my Pnews:

	. . .
	if $grep -v '^[A-Z][A-Za-z\-]*: *$' $tmpart | $inews -h ; then
	. . .

This strips the offending headers.  Something like this should go into
the next releases of 'rn' and B News, since we musn't ask C News to be
more tolerant of the messy ol' real world.

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