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From: lamy@ai.toronto.edu (Jean-Francois Lamy)
Subject: Re: News header compliance...
Message-ID: <88Jun22.215604edt.146@neat.ai.toronto.edu>
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Date:	Wed, 22 Jun 88 19:16:00 EDT

The machine that injected the message in the news system does indeed run C
news.  utcsri runs an archaic B news -- the machine is being phased out, and I
have not heard of problems there.  The news posting script is my own, heavily
modified, version of the C news postnews script.  The news machine supports
about 80 news "clients" from at least 5 different subdomains of toronto.edu,
and the simplest solution to acheive centralized posting was to use mail and
use as much of the mail header as possible (at least that way the return
addresses are sane and marginally harder to spoof).  Yes, we know about NNTP.

I don't think the tab is inserted on purpose.  It may have been inserted by a
mailer, could easily be filtered out, and in any case *I* certainly have no
religious feelings about it.

Jean-Francois Lamy               lamy@ai.utoronto.ca, uunet!ai.utoronto.ca!lamy
AI Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4