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From: sl@unifax.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: References line (RFC1036)
Message-ID: <123@unifax.UUCP>
Date: 14 May 89 06:48:43 GMT
References: <62.246A2DCC@jsheese.FIDONET.ORG> <1222@psuhcx.psu.edu>
Reply-To: sl@unifax.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Organization: Wimsey Associates
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In article <1222@psuhcx.psu.edu> wcf@psuhcx (Bill Fenner) writes:
>In article <62.246A2DCC@jsheese.FIDONET.ORG> jeffery@jsheese.FIDONET.ORG (Jeff Sheese) 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

The editor can assume that any lines until the first blank line, or first
line that starts with a word not followed with a colon; are header lines:

	Line 1		This: is a header line.
	Line 2		Another: header line.
	Line 3		This is not a header line:

Or:
	Line 1		This: is a header line.
	Line 2		Another: header line.
	Line 3
	Line 4		This: is not a header line.

You only have to worry if you absolutely must start your mail/news message
with a first line that has a colon following the first word.

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