Re: error: couldn't parse head

On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 18:03:44 +0000 (UTC), Flower Power wrote:

> This is my first post, and I'm a spamcop newbie, so I hope this is posted 
> in the correct group.
> 
> In posting the following spam to spamcop today:
> 
> http://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z813081185zd334b68a2fec1233180387e3a14cac64z
> 
> I noted the error message "error: couldn't parse head" in the report and 
> read the associated FAQ file. The FAQ indicates that the error was 
> probably  that the "Content-type" header is not indented when carried 
> over to a second line. The FAQ further insists that I introduced the 
> error, but it appears to me to be in the original message.

It wouldn't be the first time that a spammer's application mangled a
header. The date following the Content-type header is just "there"; but
there is no proper context for its existence. It is not, normally, a part
of a Content-type header.

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Norman
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