Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: From-line checking
Message-ID: <1991May30.165322.1585@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Thu, 30 May 1991 16:53:22 GMT
References: <5944.2843b113@nuhub.acs.northeastern.edu> <mLgR317w164w@mantis.co.uk>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <mLgR317w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (CNEWS MUST DIE!) writes:
>Alt.atheism has been hit by a number of the following monstrosities...
>How did they get past C News with a From: field like that?

There is a limit to how much syntax checking C News does.  It's gradually
been creeping upward, but details of the From line are not currently
examined.
-- 
"We're thinking about upgrading from    | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
SunOS 4.1.1 to SunOS 3.5."              |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry
