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From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown)
Subject: Re: Cnews "dropped article" quasi-problem
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References: <1991Jun4.161440.4161@wynnds.xenitec.on.ca> <11663@mirsa.inria.fr> <1991Jun7.125001.7519@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca> <1991Jun7.155931.8771@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1991 01:25:55 GMT

In article <1991Jun7.125001.7519@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca> davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown) writes:
| 	4) iff the header is required, insert a syntactically correct
| 		but possibly semantically incorrect replacement.

henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
| Herein lies a serious problem, alas.  Depending on the nature of the
| defective header, step (4) can do anything from recirculating ancient
| news [...]

Alas indeed... I knew I was stricking my neck out when I typed ``semantically
incorrect''.  Sure enough, head lands in basket below tumbril (:-))

--dave
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