Re: [bug] white space in Newsgroups: line

Peter J Ross <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.)

If <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/usefor/drafts/draft-ietf-usefor-usefor-11.txt>
is accepted, that will be changed:
#v+
   The Newsgroups header field specifies the newsgroup(s) to which the
   article is posted.
      
   newsgroups      =  "Newsgroups:" SP newsgroup-list CRLF

   newsgroup-list  =  *WSP newsgroup-name
                      *( [FWS] "," [FWS] newsgroup-name ) *WSP

   newsgroup-name  =  component *( "." component )
   
   component       =  1*component-char
   
   component-char  =  ALPHA / DIGIT / "+" / "-" / "_"
#v-
	  
> 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.

See if pre0.9.9-82 resolves the problem.

Thanks,
--John

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