Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: warning to all sinners in regard to current C News patches
Message-ID: <1991Apr5.193444.5778@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1991 19:34:44 GMT
References: <1991Apr03.033233.16633@buster.stafford.tx.us> <1991Apr3.172825.27190@zoo.toronto.edu> <RD.91Apr4164531@pixie.aii.com> <1991Apr5.175447.27096@engin.umich.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991Apr5.175447.27096@engin.umich.edu> stealth@caen.engin.umich.edu (Mike Pelletier) writes:
>I noticed that most of the articles rejected were because of "nonheader"
>errrors, where the header contained a non-header line.  What qualifies
>as this?  Is the X- prefix supported, as in X-Zippy-Says: that some folks
>are wont to put in their header line?  What sort of lines qualify
>as non-header?

The "X-" is just part of the header name, and is a "prefix" only by
convention.  C News neither knows nor cares about it.  The usual type
of "non-header line" is a line (preceding the header-ending empty line)
that does not start with white space (which would make it a continuation of
a previous header) and does not conform to the proper header syntax
(header name, colon, white space, header body).
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