Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Subject: Re: CNews - now a pedantic software! : -(
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 91 19:45:15 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Mar30.194515.12750@looking.on.ca>
References: <3NIP9ZB@methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de>

It's a tough decision, but one I would have to stand by.  If something
is a valid part of the standard, and there's no debate that it's a mistake,
and no claim that the variation is a proposed extension to the standard,
then the article should be bounced.

USENET has stagnated for years in what should be one of the thriving areas
of computer develompment.   You can't make any changes because of all the
old and broken software.   Those putting out bad articles have to be
thrashed.

I would go further.  If there is something that's commonly agreed upon as
bad, I would have ONE detector set up on the net that mails back to the
poster about the problem.

Now, that said, I think the standard could stand to be modified to permit:
	^Expires:$
and not insist on:
	^Expires: $

However:
	^Newsgroups:news.software.b$
Probably should be punted.

This is based on a general rule that a CR counts as whitespace, and that
space should not itself be a special character.
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473