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From: Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM
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Subject: Why no spaces allowed in "Newsgroups: " header?
Message-ID: <1991May18.111940.22309@cbfsb.att.com>
Date: 18 May 91 11:19:40 GMT
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In-Reply-To: elle@ellis.uchicago.edu's message of 17 May 91 15: 34:40 GMT
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>>>>> Regarding Re: Mangled Newsgroups line; elle@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ellen Keyne Seebacher) adds:

Ellen> grweiss@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Gregory R Weiss) has crossposting trouble:
>I tried changing the line to 'Newsgroups: rec.games.misc, rec.arts.sf-lovers'
>to cross post.  ...I got a message saying something like 'Malformed 
>Newsgroups line'.  What should I do to crosspost correctly?

Ellen> Leave out the space.

Ellen> 	Newsgroups: group.blurfl,another.group,no.spaces.here

Ellen> This is what's commonly known as a "that's-not-a-bug-that's-a-feature."

it's odd that in e-mail and most other headers, a space or 2 is ok... but
not in the "Newsgroups:" line.
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