Xref: utzoo news.software.b:8417 news.sysadmin:3884 Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.sysadmin Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: LET'S NAME THE GUILTY POSTING SOFTWARE!!! Message-ID: <1991Jun24.204047.17538@zoo.toronto.edu> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1991 20:40:47 GMT References: <1991Jun19.154645.11885@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991Jun19.172544.32267@mp.cs.niu.edu> <6098@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> <1991Jun20.114358.4871@mp.cs.niu.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology In article scs@iti.org (Steve Simmons) writes: >Good point. What we really need is a "standard library" that will do >syntax checking on article headers. Make it real portable, PD, and >hand it out to the world. Henry/Geoff, is this section of C-news >"libraryizable"? (gads, what a horrid neologism) Probably not in the sense you're really after. The header syntax is pretty trivial; what's wanted is a *semantic* checker, so to speak, and that's much harder to break out. Header processing is a "hot spot" in timing, so much attention has been paid to optimizing it. -- "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