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From: William Perry <wmperry@aventail.com>
Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no
Subject: Re: Problem with multi-line References
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 10:59:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199609261759.KAA31693@newman> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x0k9thw9gk.fsf@doctor.sdsu.edu>

Mark Boyns writes:
>A friend mentioned to me that his newsreader is having problems with
>the References header that Gnus is generating.  Apparently Free Agent
>and Netscape cannot deal with a multi-line References header.  The
>exact header line looks like this:
>
>References: <51s9c0$jur@clark.zippo.com> <51uekc$mu2@carol.fwi.uva.nl>
>	<5261ig$2ue@scotsman.ed.ac.uk> <526k4e$oq6@goonsquad.spies.com>
>
>I have to assume that multi-line References are valid so I guess the
>other newsreaders are broken.  Maybe there should be a way to keep the
>References on a single line?

  This is just completely retarded behaviour on the other newsreaders
behalf.  Not understanding wrapped header lines is right up there with not
being able to handle virtual newsgroups.  OH wait...

-Bill P.


      parent reply	other threads:[~1996-09-26 17:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-09-26 16:02 Mark Boyns
1996-09-26 17:30 ` Richard Pieri
1996-09-27  2:51   ` Steven L Baur
1996-09-27 18:54     ` Paul Franklin
1996-09-27 19:30       ` Per Abrahamsen
1996-09-26 17:59 ` William Perry [this message]

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