[news.software.b] Header rewriting

rd@pixie.aii.com (Bob Thrush) (04/19/91)

  I have occasionally noticed that article headers are being
rewritten, ie. the same Message-ID will be both rejected and accepted.
It appears that some news sites are "correcting" errant headers by 1)
removing empty headers and/or 2) headers that are missing the blank
after the `:'.

  Is this is a `feature' of some versions of news systems?  Does
C News rewrite headers? 
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henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (04/21/91)

In article <RD.91Apr18220745@pixie.aii.com> rd@pixie.aii.com (Bob Thrush) writes:
>It appears that some news sites are "correcting" errant headers...
>  Is this is a `feature' of some versions of news systems?  Does
>C News rewrite headers? 

B News rewrote headers extensively, although I'm not sure that it matches
the symptoms you give.  C News, as a matter of fervently held religious
belief, does **NOT** rewrite headers (except for Path and Xref, which any
news system must alter).  We've seen too much grief caused by well-meant
header rewriting.
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