Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!Teknowledge.COM!polya!weening
From: weening@polya.Stanford.EDU (Joe Weening)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Removing newsgroups from header
Message-ID: <12563@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 20 Oct 89 19:02:27 GMT
Reply-To: weening@Polya.Stanford.EDU (Joe Weening)
Organization: Stanford University
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When an article is cross-posted to several groups, some of which are
unknown, should the news software preserve all of the names in the
"Newsgroups:" line?  Here is an example of a problem that just
occurred.  An article was received on one of our systems (Neon) with
the following header:

    Path: neon!shelby!lll-winken!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ucdavis!caldwr!ack
    From: ack@caldwr.UUCP (David Ackerman)
    Newsgroups: misc.headlines,ca.general,ca.earthquakes
    Subject: seismograms of the 10-17-89 San Francisco Bay quake
    Keywords: seismogram earthquake
    Message-ID: <594@caldwr.UUCP>
    Date: 20 Oct 89 02:37:47 GMT
    Organization: California Department of Water Resources
    Lines: 2482

It arrived on another system (Polya) by a different route, as:

    Path: polya!Teknowledge.COM!uw-beaver!cornell!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ucdavis!caldwr!ack
    From: ack@caldwr.UUCP (David Ackerman)
    Newsgroups: misc.headlines
    Subject: seismograms of the 10-17-89 San Francisco Bay quake
    Keywords: seismogram earthquake
    Message-ID: <594@caldwr.UUCP>
    Date: 20 Oct 89 02:37:47 GMT
    Organization: California Department of Water Resources
    Lines: 2482

Somewhere along the line, "ca.general" and "ca.earthquakes" got
removed, with the result that people on Polya who subscribed to these
groups but not to misc.headlines never got to see the article.

Perhaps we can identify the culprit, and fix their software.  I have a
feeling this is happening fairly often but goes unnoticed.