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From: rli@buster.stafford.tx.us (Buster Irby)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: CNews - now a pedantic software! :-(
Message-ID: <1991Apr03.042907.16938@buster.stafford.tx.us>
Date: 3 Apr 91 04:29:07 GMT
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rli@buster.stafford.tx.us (Buster Irby) writes:

>chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:

>>Seriously, the net is better off with C News sites enforcing the
>>standards.  I for one am very glad to see this change.

>You would be singing a different tune it your article had been
>bounced because it failed to comply to the new date standard.
>Check your headers, you will find that the articles you are posting
>contain an invalid date stamp.  Since Henry decided to bend the rules
>a little for the date checking and allow the old ctime(3) format,
>don't you believe that he could bend them a little to accomodate a 
>missing space?

>Clean up your own act before you start tossing stones Chip.

Well, it has been pointed out to me that the date header in
Chip's articles were valid when they left his site, but had
apparantly been munged by some other site before reaching buster.

I sincerely appologize for bashing him wrongly.

However, this just makes my point even stronger.  Where is the
justice in dropping an article on the floor that was munged by
another site downstream of the author's site.  The new practice
of just dropping all non compliant articles will aggravate this
problem because we will be discarding the very articles we need
to debug the problem.