Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: LET'S NAME THE GUILTY POSTING SOFTWARE!!!
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.154645.11885@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1991 15:46:45 GMT
References: <2857E736.3519@tct.com> <1991Jun15.194129.25394@vlsi.polymtl.ca> <285E730F.4EC0@tct.com> <6068@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <6068@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> sob@tmc.edu (Stan Barber) writes:
>Unfortunately, some news transports spool posted articles for later
>processing by the posting software. In this case, the poster may not 
>know the article had invalid header lines.

I'd be curious to know what transport systems do this.  C News, as shipped,
doesn't -- the posting validation is done by inews, which runs immediately.
(We have talked about having the *validated* article spooled for later
processing rather than processed immediately, although at the moment it
is done immediately.)  Unless we've overlooked something, an article which
gets through inews should pass relaynews's checks.
-- 
"We're thinking about upgrading from    | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
SunOS 4.1.1 to SunOS 3.5."              |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry