Nick Boalch wrote:
>
> Paul W. Schleck wrote:
>
> > With regard to mail and news headers that are covered in RFC's, such
> > duplicate headers are not allowed. Instead, one should comma-separate
> > multiple items for the same header. In your case, something like:
> >
> > URL: http://www.dclj.de, http://de.geocities.com/uweplonus/faq,
> > ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/de/comp-lang-java/faq
> >
> > An example that might be useful as a precedent is the comma-separated
> > list of E-mail addresses that is the recommended format for the
> > Approved: header when crossposting to several moderated newsgroups.
>
> This is a worthwhile suggestion, although multiple URL auxiliary headers
> wouldn't technically invalidate the posting since, as you say, they are
> *.answers-internal and not covered by the Usenet RFCs, and in any case
> appear in the body of the RFC and are as such not treated as headers by
> news servers or agents.
>
> I think I'm correct in saying that the URL header isn't parsed by any of
> our scripts, so I don't see any issues arising from using more than one.
> On the other hand, I'm not sure if rkive has any special behaviour with
> respect to the URL auxiliary header.
I think I going to be using the comma separetad solution.
Thanks for the suggestion.
-- Cheers Uwe"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg." Bjarne Stroustrup
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