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Article #1391Re: What about #!rnews ?
From: Jon Ribbens
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 1995 00:00
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 1995 00:00
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Richard Clayton (richard@turnpike.com) wrote: : my advice (FWIW) is to tolerate missing spaces if you think there is any : possibility of seeing these (and that a line starting #!rnews will be : rare in peoples newsfeeds) [[apart from the one in your article !]] : There is a fundamental principle about being liberal in what you receive : which is worth bearing in mind. Totally agreed. Just to clarify, though - surely there are *no* disadvantages to accepting both '#! rnews' and '#!rnews', in that in this style of news batch there is never any ambiguity about what is article text and what is separator? (Unlike ^A batches, and From mail batches.) Cheers Jon ____ \ // Jon Ribbens // esveb@csv.warwick.ac.uk // \// http://www.csv.warwick.ac.uk/~esveb/ //
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