Re: 'Weird' newsgroup...

["Evert Meulie esq." <evert@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Cornelius Krasel wrote:

> "Evert Meulie esq." <evert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > A message with the following headers doesn't get posted. It seems to have
> > to do with the newsgroup name. How do I solve this?
> > 
> > Path: localhost!evert
> > Newsgroups: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?norge=2E=F8stfold?=
> > Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 16:15:42 +0100
> > From: "Evert Meulie esq." <evert@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Sender: evert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Any Ostfold College students here?
> 
> I don't think the newsgroups header allows ISO-8859 encoding. AFAIK
> newsgroups names must be plain ASCII. Therefore, if you replace the
> Newsgroups: entry with the proper ASCII stuff, you should be fine.

But what if the original newsgroup name has a ISO-8859 char. in it?


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