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From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Archimedes RUCP.
Message-ID: <VNN1311w164w@mantis.co.uk>
Date: 4 Jun 91 12:10:18 GMT
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Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
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Julian.Wright@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Julian Wright) writes:
>                                                              Now mail
> no longer tabulates the header and I have no problems. But I would rather
> it was Waffle that was fixed... a tabulated header looks so much neater...

It's not just a matter of fixing Waffle. You'll have to persuade C News to
accept funny headers as well for news items. At the moment, I believe it'll
just delete any news articles sent from RUCP if they have strange tabulated
headers.

Of course, it's quite possible that there are people reading this using RUCP
to connect to a UNIX box and post news, and not getting any error reports. You
won't, because C News doesn't bother to report the error. It just deletes the
article silently.

I'd have to check this, but I suspect that everyone using RUCP might be
having their news postings (including those sent by many mail gateways)
silently lost by C News. If so, then it's pretty important to fix RUCP
quickly!

Incidentally, if you think the silent deletion is a bad idea, you might like
to take a look at the newsgroup news.software.b.


mathew