Re: Long references headers

A.R. & F.L. Scott-Thoennes (sthoenna@peak.org)
Mon, 30 Dec 1996 17:17:00 -0800

In article <wHwuyouLAFFU092yn@post1.com>, rare@post1.com (rare) wrote:
>..Dennis McClain-Furmanski <dmcclain@runet.edu> had the nerve to say:
>
>> It starts out in the middle of one of the references and doesn't even
>> have the References: heading. (I'm assuming that's how it came because
>> your sample had other headers intact).
>
>No no, perhaps I'm not making myself clear. The portion of the header
>that I quoted, was precisely what I would see i the Yarn article viewer
>with this particular article. If I'd press 'v' to view all headers
>everything would look just fine, except for a sudden line break in the
>middle of the references-header. Now, what caused this break?

uqwk will introduce extraneous newlines into extremely long lines on news
it gets via nntp. This often mungs up the Newsgroups or References headers.