Re: [bug] white space in Newsgroups: line

Troy Piggins <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.slrn.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* Peter J Ross is quoted & my replies are inline below :
> 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.

Peter!  Thankyou!  I have also noticed this recently.  I have been attempting,
on and off, to figure out a way in vim to do this.  Even posted a question in
comp.editors recently.  I'm not too savvy with ex commands.

So thanks again.  I'll use your method until GG sorts this out, or something
else comes along.

-- 
Troy Piggins | http://piggo.com/~troy/slrn                    ___  |   __   __
* Currently using slrn pre0.9.9-77                           |___  | |/   |/  |
* Try it:                                                     ___| | |    |   |
$ svn co https://slrn.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/slrn/trunk slrn

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