Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!netsys!jsheese!jeffery
From: jeffery@jsheese.FIDONET.ORG (Jeff Sheese)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: References line (RFC1036)
Message-ID: <71.246B9252@jsheese.FIDONET.ORG>
Date: 13 May 89 02:25:36 GMT
Organization: JStek Enterprises - Frederick, MD
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References: <1222@psuhcx.psu.edu>

In an article of <12 May 89 14:50:50 GMT>, wcf@psuhcx.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)    
writes:

 >That would take quite a lot of changing on most of USENET's part.  Maybe
 >a better thing would be to ask the UFGATE folks to allow misc. header 
 >lines that are at the top of the article to pass through in the header.
 >How do you tell a header line from something like
 >First: I don't ...
 >or whatever?  I don't know.  Maybe keep a list of all the ones allowed
 >by RFC1036, or something.

I'd have to refer back to RFC1036, but maybe those misc header lines have no    
more than one or two words followed by a colon.  Then the s/w can ignore    
anything past the blank line that follows.  How can the s/w tell the    
difference between a valid misc header line and 'First: I don't...' in the    
first line of the message?  Well as we say in Fidonet, RTFD and 'Caveat    
Emptor'.

I'll request the source for NEWSOUT just to see if I can make the necessary    
adjustments.  At least it will give me a starting point for the software    
necessary to make myself compatible.

OBTW - I entered a sample References line to the first line in the body of   
this message.  I'd like to request a few people to test it's validity with   
their news software.  Please respond via mail *only* if it works and I'll   
summarize.  If it doesn't work then don't respond.

In the meantime I'll examine the source for the PC implementation of SED to   
see if I can convince it NOT to put cr/lf pairs in it's output files.  Maybe   
that would be a quick kludge.
   
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