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From: wcf@psuhcx.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: References line (RFC1036)
Message-ID: <1226@psuhcx.psu.edu>
Date: 15 May 89 21:12:42 GMT
References: <71.246B9252@jsheese.FIDONET.ORG>
Reply-To: wcf@psuhcx.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
Organization: Engineering Computer Lab, Penn State University
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In article <71.246B9252@jsheese.FIDONET.ORG> jeffery@jsheese.FIDONET.ORG (Jeff Sheese) writes:
|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    
Only if you put a blank line after the headers you put in.  I suppose that's
an OK restriction.  I suggest that this discussion move to the UFGATE echo;
unless you still want others' input.

|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've never heard RTFD... Document?

|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.
I thought that (forgot his name; author of newsout) said he was coming out
with a new version soon -- we could probably convince him to add it; shouldn't
be hard.

  Bill
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