[bug] white space in Newsgroups: line

Google Groups wrongly inserts white space into the Newsgroups: line, e.g.
	Newsgroups: alt.foo, alt.bar,  alt.foo.bar
which, according to a consensus of everybody from net.gods like Russ Allbery 
to net.nobodies like me, fails to comply with RFC 1036 ("Multiple newsgroups 
may be specified, separated by a comma." It's agreed that *only* a comma is a 
valid separator.)

Most newsreaders, including Outlook Express, Thunderbird and Forte Agent, 
remove such white space from the Newsgroups: line, but slrn pre0.9.9-77 
doesn't.

My local server/proxy, Leafnode2, rightly rejects my replies to crossposted 
Google-Groups articles because of the white space.

I hope this isn't too dfficult to fix. As a temporary workaround, I'm using 
this in my .vimrc:

	autocmd VimEnter .followup :silent! :1s/\([^:]\) \+/\1/g

But other slrn users are presumably sending broken articles, and some of them 
are presumably using text editors that don't allow such workarounds as mine 
to be applied.

-- 
PJR :-)

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