dmmartindale@watmath.UUCP (Dave Martindale) (01/15/85)
The input() routine in inews has a useful feature - it deletes the trailing newlines from incoming news articles. Fine, but why doesn't it also get rid of them on the originating system instead of depending on the news neighbours to do the dirty work? The fix is not trivial, since the originating system must deal with a possible .signature file that the downstream systems do not, but surely in the name of elegance the trimming should be done at the point of submission too?