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From: kucharsk@Solbourne.COM (William Kucharski)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: CNews - now a pedantic software! :-(
Message-ID: <1991Apr3.202707.26014@Solbourne.COM>
Date: 3 Apr 91 20:27:07 GMT
References: <27F63B37.CFD@tct.com> <1991Apr02.183535.13886@buster.stafford.tx.us> <1991Apr03.042907.16938@buster.stafford.tx.us>
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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.  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.

However, C News isn't dropping articles because of the date; it's rather
lenient in that regard.  However, if you have a site that's rewriting, say,
"Newsgroups: " lines without the space, you definitely have broken news
software somewhere and the article SHOULD be dropped...
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