Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!cica!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!shelby!neon!Gang-of-Four!weening From: weening@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Joe Weening) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Removing newsgroups from header Message-ID: Date: 27 Oct 89 00:33:48 GMT References: <12563@polya.Stanford.EDU> <3672@epimass.EPI.COM> Sender: USENET News System Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University Lines: 20 In-Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM's message of 23 Oct 89 18:07:17 GMT In article <3672@epimass.EPI.COM> jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) writes: Up until version 2.10.2, unknown newsgroups were stripped. 2.11 and C news preserve all newsgroups. I'm not sure what 2.10.3 did. The RFCs specify that all newsgroups should be preserved. The site that I think is doing this is running 2.10.3. If anyone knows for sure whether 2.10.3 has this problem, please let me know. Based on the paths you show, shelby, lll-winken, brutus.cs.uiuc.edu, or gem.mps.ohio-state.edu must be guilty, and I very much doubt that it's the Ohio State machine. As one or two people have pointed out, the system modifying the header was not one of these (it was on the other path of the two I showed). Since I'm now fairly sure who it is, we can move this discussion to private mail. Thanks for all of the comments. -- Joe Weening Computer Science Dept. weening@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU Stanford University