C News ctl/newgroup script isn't very careful!

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 10:35

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Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1992Oct12.222725.6167@robohack.UUCP> woods@robohack.UUCP (Greg A. Woods) writes:
>The following control message arrived today, and C News' newgroup
>script duitifully appended a line to the active file with an empty
>blank line!

Tsk tsk, you're running an obsolete version. :-)  The Performance Release
newgroup script rejected that one (although admittedly it was unexpected,
and could have been handled better).
-- 
MS-DOS is the OS/360 of the 1980s.      | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
              -Hal W. Hardenbergh (1985)|  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry

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Subject: C News ctl/newgroup script isn't very careful!
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