Strange

[J. Porter Clark]

rra at stanford.edu (Russ Allbery) writes:

>> Jan 10 07:16:36.165 - news-xfer.siscom.net <8EB745918Coplccom at 24.2.9.59> 437
>> Whitespace in "Newsgroups" header -- "alt.binaries.sounds.mp3,
>> alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.dance"

>That's a blatant violation of RFC 1036, although it will become legal with
>the next revision of the news standards so at some point INN will be
>updated to accept them.  Again, though, there shouldn't be that many of
>these, as a lot of servers will reject them.

Checked your logs lately?  Here's what I'm seeing at
news.msfc.nasa.gov:

000102:      30 Whitespace in "Newsgroups" header
000103:   13374 Whitespace in "Newsgroups" header
000104:     382 Whitespace in "Newsgroups" header
000105:     193 Whitespace in "Newsgroups" header
000106:    1368 Whitespace in "Newsgroups" header
000107:     199 Whitespace in "Newsgroups" header
000108:    1073 Whitespace in "Newsgroups" header
000109:    1907 Whitespace in "Newsgroups" header
000110:    1812 Whitespace in "Newsgroups" header
000111:     153 Whitespace in "Newsgroups" header

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J. Porter Clark    porter.clark at msfc.nasa.gov
NASA/MSFC Computers and Data Systems Group