Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: CNews - now a pedantic software! : -(
Message-ID: <1991Apr3.173103.27325@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1991 17:31:03 GMT
References: <3NIP9ZB@methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de> <27F63B37.CFD@tct.com> <1991Apr02.183535.13886@buster.stafford.tx.us> <1991Apr03.042907.16938@buster.stafford.tx.us>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991Apr03.042907.16938@buster.stafford.tx.us> rli@buster.stafford.tx.us writes:
>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...

It would make it stronger if this actually happened.  It doesn't.
The date munging that B News does gives dates that C News accepts.
For all the problems B News's header mangling causes, the resulting
headers generally *are* legal RFC822/1036 headers, so this is an
imaginary problem.
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