Re: Posting Usenet News Messages

From: Tad McClellan (tadmc_at_augustmail.com)
Date: 02/18/04 

Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 23:23:10 -0600

Camelback Jones <ignoromnibus@cochon.fr> wrote:
> Tad McClellan wrote:
>> Camelback Jones <ignoromnibus@cochon.fr> wrote:

>>> "Newsgroups: alt.test",
>>> "Subject: One More Test",
>>> "Message-ID: <433498\@noemail.com>",
>>> "Path: aintg",
>>> " ",
>> ^
>> ^
>> ^ you don't want that space character there.
>
> Why not?

Because then you will make the 3-char sequence "\n \n" when
you are supposed to be making the 2-char sequence "\n\n".

> The spec calls for a blank line. What DO you want there?

A blank line.

A line with a space character on it is not blank,
it has a space character on it.

>> So the claim "This is the body of this message." is a lie, it
>> is in the headers of the message.
>
> No, it's not a lie.

Didn't you see the smiley?

Do you know what a smiley means?

> If I'm interpreting your comments, should this work?

Yes.

> @lines = ('From: Norbo Quantitator <aintg@noemail.com>',
> 'Date: Fri, Feb 13 2004 15:14:13 CST',
> 'Newsgroups: alt.test',
> 'Subject: One More Test',
> 'Message-ID: <433499@noemail.com>',
> 'Path: aintg',
> '',
> '',
> 'This is the body of this message.',
> 'There may be any number of body lines. Or not.',
> ''
> );
>
> It doesn't

I can't help then. Sorry. 

-- 
    Tad McClellan                          SGML consulting
    tadmc@augustmail.com                   Perl programming
    Fort Worth, Texas

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