>I have just tried to update my FAQ on the faq-server and it returned
>the following error:
>
>>> Subject: Your "update" request to the news.answers FAQ server
>>>
>>> The message below was sent by you to the news.answers FAQ server. It
>>> cannot be processed for the following reason:
>>>
>>> unparseable lines in posting header.
>>>
>>> The following lines in one of your headers (either your mail header,
>>> your posting header, or your posting's auxiliary header) were
>>> improperly formatted in some way (e.g., lines beginning with
>>> whitespace at the beginning of the header; fields with whitespace in
>>> the field name (i.e., whitespace before the colon); fields with no
>>> whitespace after the colon) and therefore could not be parsed by the
>>> server:
>>>
>>> ,rec.answers,news.answers
>...
>>> Subject: UPDATE not_the_real_password
>>> MIME-Version: 1.0
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit
>>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>>>
>>> Newsgroups: rec.audio.tech,rec.audio.pro,rec.audio.misc,rec.audio.opinion=
>>> ,rec.answers,news.answers
>>> Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.EDU
>
>I haven't upgraded my FAQ since August 1996 and since then the mailer
>software on our mail hub has been upgraded to `sendmail 8.8.8'. Is
>it this that is splitting my Newsgroups line (and if so how do I stop
>it) or is the miscreant the faq-server?
>
>The documentation for `sendmail 8.8.8' was unhelpful, as was the
>"HELP" message I retrieved from the faq-server.
Wouldn't the mail user agent (or the editor it invokes) be the more
likely culprit? I didn't think mail transfer agents diddled a message
much other than Message-ID: From envelope line and a few other
header lines (From: , Reply-To: etc.).
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