Re: Vsoup might just be the best thing since sliced bread!

From: Andrew Hodgson (Andrew@hodgsons.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 22:26:21 -0400

In article <8UZV3cun8fXa092yn@swol.de>, rgriech@swol.de (Hardy Griech) wrote:
>On Thu, 27 May 1999 19:08:28 -0400,
>Andrew@hodgsons.freeserve.co.uk (Andrew Hodgson) wrote:
>> The only thing I don't like about vsoup is that it overwrites the x-newsreader
>> field, and I would rather not let it put anything in there like souper does. If
>> this were the case then I would use it. Is there a way to do this?
>
>VSoup does not overwrite an existing x-newsreader line! It appends
>_another_ x-newsreader line to the header (since 1.2.9.xBeta).
>Previously appearing other x-newsreader lines are not touched.
>
>I'm not sure, if this is RFC compliant, but (nevertheless) I wanted to
>get some usage feedback of VSoup. Check
>http://www.cs.uit.no/~kjelli/newschart.html for statistitics, although
>I'm not sure, which groups were scanned (e.g. is the de.* tree scanned,
>I suppose not...).
>
Yes I can see your point exactly when you are talking about feedback and
statistics, however, I would rather only have one x-newsreader line, when I used
vsoup before I got two and was flamed in a linux ng for not sorting out my
headers properly, and I would like to keep the yarn header in by default if
possible.

-- 
Sincerely,
Andrew.

There has been opposition to every innovation in the history of man, with the possible exception of the sword. -- Benjamin Dana