Re: [bug] white space in Newsgroups: line
Troy Piggins <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.slrn.user |
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* 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.
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