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In article <878907794snz@courtfld.demon.co.uk>, Raj Rijhwani
<raj@courtfld.demon.co.uk> writes
>In article <878923529snz@microvest.demon.co.uk>
>           tgold@panix.com "Anthony R. Gold" writes:
>
>> 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 ":".
>
>You may be right about the RFC

He is - except in so far as it is 1036 (and 822 underpinning it).

Whitespace is unacceptable in "Newsgroups:"

> - I don't have it to hand - but 
>I've never known a whitespace after the comma to be a problem.

your articles will not get far like that - many news systems will reject
them as non-conformant :(

I remember this issue coming up before, but a long time ago and I cannot
recall the Snews fix, sorry.

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