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| From | "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | free.control |
| Subject | Re: cmsg newgroup free.snipe |
| Date | 2021-04-22 22:56 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <s5suu2$fir$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <1p81i01.1vco0oo4dex9eN%snipeco.2@gmail.com> <1p81vcp.38rgj6ua0bwoN%snipeco.2@gmail.com> <s5sggn$t5i$6@dont-email.me> <1p820bz.10sv9kwwbp8v9N%snipeco.2@gmail.com> |
Sn!pe <snipeco.1@gmail.com> wrote: >Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote: > >> Sn!pe <snipeco.1@gmail.com> wrote: >> >Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote: >> >>Sn!pe <snipeco.1@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >>>For your newsgroups file: >> >>>free.snipe Release the wading bird. >> >> ^ >> >>Not a tab character; your composer isn't entering one >> >> >>Can you enter it directly with the character code? >> >> >>It's probably not going to prevent it from being appended to the >> >>newsgroups file on most servers that create it. >> >> >Hmm, I don't understand that, I definitely used the tab key. >> >> This is a long-standing problem. Certain composers in newsreaders and >> certain text editors are loathe to allow the use of a tab character, even >> though it's ASCII, substituting a string of spaces. It's a feature but I >> call it broken behavior. Well, that screws up the newsgroups file line >> in a newgroup message. The problem is well known and News servers are >> programmed to substitute the required tab upon processing the newgroup >> message or creating the group. >> >> >Whatever, E-S has created it, as have aioe and Viper [edit]. >> >> Right, but the issue is whether the tab appears in the newsgroup file >> itself. >> >> You can see what INN does upon processing the newsgroups file line by >> downloading the sample active and newsgroups files at >> >> ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG >> >> as those files aren't updated unless the newsgroups file line is in good >> syntax but the tab substitution should be made. [snip to end] >> > >Interesting. I see two free.* groups I've newgrouped in the past >but not my two latest ones. I assume that it takes time for 'active' >and 'newsgroups' to be updated? I'll keep an eye on this. Russ doesn't run the update all that often anymore; maybe overnight.
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Re: cmsg newgroup free.snipe "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2021-04-22 16:24 +0000
Re: cmsg newgroup free.snipe snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2021-04-22 18:47 +0100
Re: cmsg newgroup free.snipe "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2021-04-22 18:49 +0000
Re: cmsg newgroup free.snipe snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2021-04-22 20:25 +0100
Re: cmsg newgroup free.snipe "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2021-04-22 22:56 +0000
Re: cmsg newgroup free.snipe snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2021-04-23 13:10 +0100
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