Strange

[Jeremy]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 02:59:43AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> 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.

That's Peck's Power Post.  People type in a list of groups and put spaces
after the commas, because that's how they're used to typing, and the
program leaves them in.  Since you have to actually type in the newsgroup
names with that program, this happens a lot.  It's epidemic.

Unfortunately, the program is abandonware without source available, and
it's very widely used.

-Jeremy