Just noticed a cutesy feature of alpine. I archive certain Usenet articles
locally in Berkeley Mail-style files so the individual articles can be
read with a mailer.

If I read the article using alpine, and that article had been crossposted,
alpine displays the Newsgroups header with a comman and space between
group names.

I looked at such an article, which I'd sent, and thought I saw a syntax
violation. Spaces are not allowed between group names on the Newsgroups header.
To prove to myself that there was no syntax violation, I looked at the
file with a text editor.

It's not helpful to display a header as if it contains a syntax error
because it makes the information more readable.

Command "HdrMode": simply type "H".
Then you have no space.

Try with _this_ article.

Not crossposting to comp.mail.headers

Thank you, but I've been aware of that command since pine 3.x, which I guess
is when I first started using the client. I checked with a text editor as
I wasn't trusting alpine.

It's irrelevant to my complaint that in normal display mode, headers in
correct syntax are displayed as if they have syntax errors.

Another complaint about normal display mode: On headers that accept
email address, if the full name is used with the email address and it
contains a ".", it's required to be delimited with double quotes (I don't
recall if other methods are allowed). The double quotes are hidden in
normal display mode. I got used to that years ago, again, it's not helpful.

alpine isn't my newsreader.