On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 03:33:10 +0100, Fro <showandbeshown@gmail.com> wrote:
> What is that???
> <eca073b1-308a-436e-9f09-fa0d4c127eb7@j28g2000hsj.googlegroups.com>
An error in his newscclient (slrn/0.9.8.1pl2 ), which drops the
'References:' text.
From comp.infosystems.
www.authoring.html:
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:50:58 +0100, Blinky the Shark <no.spam@box.invalid>
wrote:
> andrew wrote:
>> The latest svn slrn is very, very stable and might be a better choice
>> than slrn/0.9.8.1pl2. Some discussion in news.software.readers about
>> the lost 'References' header if you are interested.
>
> And from that group, where I took this issue earlier today, this is from
> the author of that version:
>
> <q>
> 0.9.8.1pl2 is buggy in its treatment of headers with long "words". As
> such, anything can happen. In this case, version 0.9.8.1pl2 wrapped
> the references header but because of a bug, the line containing
> "References:" was deleted. As a result, the remaining continuation
> lines became associated with the previous header: the subject header,
> </q>
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Rik Wasmus