From: daz <dooby@...10.karoo.co.uk>
Date: 2004-06-01T04:18:40+09:00
Subject: Re: separating ruby-talk from comp.lang.ruby?


Thomas Fini Hansen wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 03:21:13AM +0900, Carlos wrote:
> > [Carlos <angus@quovadis.com.ar>, 2004-05-31 19.57 CEST]
> > > [ruby-talk:101837] has a newline in the subject line.
> >
> > BTW, here are the latests messages with newlines in their subjects (only
> > first line shown). Maybe you want to check if they reached the newsgroup, to
> > be sure if this is or isn't the problem.
>
> Well, technically it's 'folding', used to ensure that headers doesn't
> hit the SMTP linelength limit. But maybe one of the gateway scripts
> doesn't like that?
>
> I don't know anything about news, but if it's based on SMTP, I'd think
> that it should handle it allright. On the other hand, if that's not
> the case, that could be the problem.
>

Guy spotted a problem in the past with "immediate"[1] folding:
  http://www.ruby-talk.org/85857


Many headers fold.  They're O.K.


daz

[1]  First line is newline followed by continuation line(s).