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From: trt@rti.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Notice for A+ news sites
Message-ID: <1104@rti.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-May-83 11:05:29 EDT
Article-I.D.: rti.1104
Posted: Tue May 24 11:05:29 1983
Date-Received: Sat, 28-May-83 01:42:14 EDT
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	*** BUG FIX FOR ALL A+ NEWS SITES ***
The new headers in B 2.10 are mishandled by A+ news.
The fix, which should be installed immediately,
is to delete the one and only call to 'hb_canon' in header.c.
That routine 'canonicalizes' header lines, something
which has turned out to be a Bad Idea.

Repeating: sites running A+ news should not call 'hb_canon(field);'
Please fix this *immediately*, to avoid problems at B news sites.

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	*** A NEWS DECLARED DEAD ***
Steve Daniel and I (authors of A and A+ news) have decided
to recommend that those few sites still running some flavor of A news
switch to B.  We do not have the energy to track current
and future changes in Usenet.
And besides, B news is fairly good these days.
	Tom Truscott