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Adam H. Kerman
Sep 2, 2012, 7:40:01 PM9/2/12
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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.
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.
Andreas Prilop
Sep 3, 2012, 12:50:45 PM9/3/12
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On Sun, 2 Sep 2012, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
> alpine displays the Newsgroups header with a comman and space
> between group names.
Command "HdrMode": simply type "H".
> alpine displays the Newsgroups header with a comman and space
> between group names.
Then you have no space.
Try with _this_ article.
Adam H. Kerman
Sep 3, 2012, 3:45:43 PM9/3/12
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Not crossposting to comp.mail.headers
Andreas Prilop <prilo...@trashmail.net> wrote:
>On Sun, 2 Sep 2012, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>>alpine displays the Newsgroups header with a comman and space
>>between group names.
>Command "HdrMode": simply type "H".
>Then you have no space.
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.
>Try with _this_ article.
alpine isn't my newsreader.
Andreas Prilop <prilo...@trashmail.net> wrote:
>On Sun, 2 Sep 2012, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>>alpine displays the Newsgroups header with a comman and space
>>between group names.
>Command "HdrMode": simply type "H".
>Then you have no space.
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.
>Try with _this_ article.
alpine isn't my newsreader.
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