Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: warning to all sinners in regard to current C News patches Message-ID: <1991Apr5.193444.5778@zoo.toronto.edu> Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1991 19:34:44 GMT References: <1991Apr03.033233.16633@buster.stafford.tx.us> <1991Apr3.172825.27190@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991Apr5.175447.27096@engin.umich.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology In article <1991Apr5.175447.27096@engin.umich.edu> stealth@caen.engin.umich.edu (Mike Pelletier) writes: >I noticed that most of the articles rejected were because of "nonheader" >errrors, where the header contained a non-header line. What qualifies >as this? Is the X- prefix supported, as in X-Zippy-Says: that some folks >are wont to put in their header line? What sort of lines qualify >as non-header? The "X-" is just part of the header name, and is a "prefix" only by convention. C News neither knows nor cares about it. The usual type of "non-header line" is a line (preceding the header-ending empty line) that does not start with white space (which would make it a continuation of a previous header) and does not conform to the proper header syntax (header name, colon, white space, header body). -- "The stories one hears about putting up | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology SunOS 4.1.1 are all true." -D. Harrison| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry