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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: C-news rejects articles due to bad headers.
Message-ID: <1991May9.225628.8701@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 9 May 91 22:56:28 GMT
References: <1991May3.173007.21900@mp.cs.niu.edu> <1991May3.185024.26725@mp.cs.niu.edu> <1991May9.220348.2906@rice.edu>
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In article <1991May9.220348.2906@rice.edu> cathyf@lost.rice.edu (Catherine Anne Foulston) writes:
>In article <1991May3.185024.26725@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
>
>>It seems apparent that problems are occurring mostly with empty headers,
>>or headers which were probably edited by humans.
>
>Or both at the same time.  I was deleting a stupid Distribution: the other
>day, and I use vi.  How easy it is to put the cursor one character to the
>right of the colon and press C, producing an article which C News (if I
>understand correctly) will reject.  I remembered in time, but who would if
>they didn't read this group?

  I believe, at least with the current Cnews, this is not a problem.  It will
be corrected by inews and/or anne.jones.  Or at least this should take care
of the empty headers.  I am not so sure of the 'Header:noblank' situation.
It only is rejected if it gets past these and into relaynews.  Thus the usual
problem is with articles from another site with bad headers, which never see
inews and anne.jones.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
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