Can scanspool be fixed to handle continuation lines in Newsgroups header fields? about inn HOT 4 CLOSED

Oh, I just saw this in the man page

scanspool only considers the first line of the Newsgroups: header field. Continuation lines are not taken into account.

Maybe this could be considered an enhancement request.

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Exactly, this is a known limitation. It could be considered either as an enhancement request, yes, or a bug of wrong parsing!

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Incidentally, it is a duplicate of #193. (I'm closing the previous ticket I once opened, to only keep yours.)

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I've just added a few features in scanspool, following our latest discussions: it now detects empty files in a tradspool news spool, directories with an all-digit component (which may conflict with a possible file with the same name), correctly parses continuation lines in header fields, and can automatically remove articles reported to have a problem (when run with the new -r flag).
Before trying -r, please ensure the list of reported articles look good and there aren't false positives in it. If you find articles incorrectly reported, it is a bug, so please report them.

To test, just download the current version (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/InterNetNews/inn/main/frontends/scanspool.in) and update the first 2 lines of the script to use the same ones as your current scanspool program. You can then run it.

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