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From: flee@shire.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: bit.* considered harmful, or the perils of gatewaying
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Date: 3 Mar 90 16:55:39 GMT
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Edward Vielmetti <emv@math.lsa.umich.edu> wrote:
>My B News 2.11.14 croaks on articles with articles that look like
>	>To:

B News assumes that header fields start with an alphabetic character.
I don't see any restriction in RFC 1036; RFC 822 says a field name can
have any printable ASCII character except ':' in it.  C News conforms
to RFC 822.
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Felix Lee	flee@shire.cs.psu.edu	*!psuvax1!flee