Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!epiwrl!epimass!jbuck
From: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Header spelling (was Re: New Map Files)
Message-ID: <1794@epimass.EPI.COM>
Date: 3 Jan 88 22:26:12 GMT
References: <8711241022.AA12529@RUTGERS.EDU> <21871@lll-tis.arpa> <3622@hoptoad.uucp> <1034@maynard.BSW.COM> <796@zen.UUCP> <6430@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <796@zen.UUCP> frank@zen.UUCP (Frank Wales) writes:
>>If this is likely to be done, could the software *please* accept
>>"Organisation:" too?  Huh?  People?

In article <6430@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> chapman@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Brent Chapman) writes:
>I don't think the News software looks at "Organization:", so you can
>spell it however you like.  There are a certain set of header fields
>that the software is interested (including "Supersedes:" or "Supercedes:";
>now I've forgotten which one is right..); all the rest (including
>"Organization:") are simply ignored and passed along.

Not quite.  With "inews -h", if there is an "Organisation:"  header
an "Organization:"  header will be added as well.  This is how rn
(through Pnews) invokes inews.  And rn will call the "Organisation"
header an unknown header, so if you've asked rn not to show unknown
headers it won't be displayed.

Because of the way "known headers" are handled in the code, though
(the part after the colon is saved away in a structure and then
there's a printf to put "Organization:"  on the display), it wouldn't
be difficult to have the user interface display and accept British
spellings while the actual articles still contain the American
versions.  




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