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From: wisner@eddie.MIT.EDU (Bill Wisner)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Checkgroup Ctl message from altel!root
Message-ID: <8593@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: 25 Mar 88 16:59:17 GMT
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Reply-To: wisner@eddie.MIT.EDU (Bill Wisner)
Organization: MIT, EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA
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altel!root posted his checkgroups messages very sloppily. He attempted
to limit distribution, but bungled it.

Now, listen up, kids:

THERE MUST BE A SPACE BETWEEN THE HEADER FIELD AND THE TEXT OF THE HEADER!

For example, our friend at altel should have said:
Distribution: altel

Instead, he did this:
Distribution:altel

There is a REASON that every news-related program in existence puts a
space after every header field. It is because the news software REQUIRES that
space before it will be recognized as a proper header.

Lecture done. Take this soapbox outta here, Guido.

Everyone else should just ignore the output generated by those checkgroups
messages.

..b