Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!snark!eric
From: eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: News header compliance...
Summary: Whitespace spoken here
Message-ID: 
Date: 24 Jun 88 12:59:14 GMT
References: <674@spectrix.uucp>
Organization: Wild-Eyed Extremists for Freedom, Inc.
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In article <674@spectrix.uucp>, Chris Lewis (It's loose again!) writes:
>What do we do now?  Should B-news be hacked to accept tabs here?  It's
>very easy to do.  However, as more people convert to C-news (What
>does B-news 3.0 do?) this will represent a bigger and bigger problem to
>people who can't or won't upgrade past their current B-news.

The Right Thing in these situations is to be liberal about what you accept
and conservative about what you send. Accordingly, B3.0 won't barf on tabs
immediately after the colon, but (for header fields over which it has format
control at header write time) it always generates a space there. I say unto the
C news people: go thou and do likewise.
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      Eric S. Raymond                     (the mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews)
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