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From: ben@wri.com (Ben Cox)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Really funny jokes being missed
Message-ID: <ben.674596383@dragonfly.wri.com>
Date: 18 May 91 19:53:03 GMT
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In <1991May17.170033.17759@dsuvax.uucp> ghelmer@dsuvax.uucp (Guy Helmer) writes:

>Henry has pointed out many times that it is difficult to correct
>problems in an article.  Direct human intervention is essentially
>the only way to fix incorrectly formed headers.

This is the lazy man's answer.  Given sufficient effort, one could probably
write a shell script that would fix a Date: header.  A Path: header would be
harder, but most others are cake.

-- Ben Cox
   ben@wri.com
   My boss didn't tell me to write this.