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.