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From: cudep@warwick.ac.uk (Ian Dickinson)
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Subject: Re: Possible solution to C news dropping articles?
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Date: 10 Jun 91 16:28:32 GMT
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In article <HPN532w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*) writes:
>For example, if you are using rn and one of your users is in the habit of
>leaving out the spaces after the colons in a newsgroup header, then all his
>postings will be silently dropped, but your sample article will pass the
>test suite with no problems.

The issue here is user education and/or fixes to Pnews.


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