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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: sending a mail file to inews
Message-ID: <1991Apr22.151946.350@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1991 15:19:46 GMT
References: <1991Apr16.153753.2336@zoo.toronto.edu> <90894@becker.UUCP> <1991Apr19.223903.28698@zoo.toronto.edu> <91014@becker.UUCP>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <91014@becker.UUCP> bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce D. Becker) writes:
>|... Does your shell/awk combo deal with things like
>|parenthesized comments where they aren't allowed in news? ...
>
>	B news seems to accept the "(" without any
>	complaints so it actually converts "From:"
>	lines to that style (perhaps incorrectly).

The From header is a specialized exception to the rule.
-- 
And the bean-counter replied,           | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
"beans are more important".             |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry