How long exactly is your "long" Newsgroups: line?
Are you using some sort of MIME encoding? (This would show up as
equals signs where the lines are broken up.)
Note that there should be no spaces between the newsgroup names. (I'd
imagine the FAQ checker would warn you about that if this was the
problem.)
I submitted a silly test with a 604-line Newsgroups: line just now
which passed with flying colors:
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Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 03:36:40 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: ignore -- testing long newsgroups line
From: auto-replier-daemon@penguin-lust.MIT.EDU (do not reply to this address)
Comment: send comments to news-answers-request@MIT.EDU
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Reference:
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> Subject: ignore -- testing long newsgroups line
> To: news-answers-submit@BLOOM-PICAYUNE.MIT.EDU
> Date: 9 Aug 1997 09:59:09 +0300
> From: era eriksson <era@iki.fi>
>
> Subject: ignore -- testing long newsgroups line
> Followup-to: poster
> From: era eriksson <era@iki.fi>
> Newsgroups: alt.-1d,alt.0.infinity.squared,alt.0000a.this-site.newgroups.everything,alt.0d,alt.1d,alt.2600,alt.2600.414,alt.2600.AOL,alt.2600.QnA,alt.2600.cardz,alt.2600.codez,alt.2600.crackz,alt.2600.crypteia,alt.2600.debate,alt.2600.fake-id,alt.2600.hackerz,alt.2600.hope,alt.2600.hope.announce,alt.2600.hope.d,alt.2600.hope.tech,alt.2600.mod,alt.2600.moderated,alt.2600.phreakz,alt.2600.programz,alt.2600.warez,alt.2600a,alt.2600hz,alt.266,alt.2d,alt.3d,alt.3d.misc,alt.3d.rhino,alt.3d.sirds,alt.3d.studio,alt.3djam-tv,alt.59.79.99,alt.CUCAP,alt.Cajun,alt.Cajun.info,alt.Karen,alt.answers,news.answers
>
> Archive-name: moo/bar
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Perhaps you could quote the problematic Newsgroups: line to the list
for us all to see?
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