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From: "Anthony R. Gold"
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 1997 00:00

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I find that when following a crossposted article with a line:

Newsgroups: ng1,ng2,ng3

that Snews usually (but not always??) will create an article with:

Newsgroups: ng1,
 ng2,
 ng3

I believe that this is broken as RFC821 (??or something) only allows 
splitting a header line at permitted white spaces, and the 
Newsgroups: line has no permitted white spaces except for the one 
that is required after the ":".

Luckily the Demon mail2news gateway appears to be lax about this 
requirement. However other gateways are stricter and they will first 
reconstruct the mail item's line to become:

Newsgroups: ng1, ng2, ng3

And then the news server will reject the article for bad format.

The thing I can't put my finger on is why, sometimes, the following 
article is formatted "correctly".  Today I played for a while and I 
couldn't make any unbroken followups, but I'm sure I've made some in 
the past and I see some that were posted by other using Snews.

Regards,
-- 
   Tony - G3SKR / W2TG                   email: tgold@panix.com

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From: tgold@microvest.demon.co.uk ("Anthony R. Gold")
Subject: Is Snews's Newsgroups: line broken?
Date: 1997/11/07
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