[news.admin] C-New stricter header checking needed?

scs@iti.org (Steve Simmons) (05/16/91)

Recently found an article in `junk' with the newsgroups containing
backspaces (no, not ascii pair `^H', but literal backspaces).  If
this is not de jure bad header, it's sure de facto.  Could the next
C-News release reject these monsters?
-- 
"SPAM is a registered trademark of a pork product
 packed only by Geo. A Hormel & Co. Corp."
     -- Sun Technical Bulletin, March 1991, pg ii

kyle@uunet.uu.net (Kyle Jones) (05/24/91)

In article <scs.674399011@wotan.iti.org> scs@iti.org (Steve Simmons) writes:
 > Recently found an article in `junk' with the newsgroups containing
 > backspaces (no, not ascii pair `^H', but literal backspaces).  If
 > this is not de jure bad header, it's sure de facto.  Could the next
 > C-News release reject these monsters?

Actually the restriction on control characters in headers is
unfortunate, as it doesn't allow some existing character encoding
schemes to be used in the headers.  So you get subject lines in
English and the rest of the article in the native character set.