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From: mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Who pays the bill?
Message-ID: <1990Aug1.201232.23136@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 1 Aug 90 20:12:32 GMT
References: <Jul.30.17.57.18.1990.9079@turbo.bio.net> <3275.26b54aab@mccall.com> <1990Jul31.211125.11451@mlb.semi.harris.com> <818@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes:

>What the documentation should clearly state for sites that are
>using netnews for ->usenet<- traffic, that INTERNET should ALWAYS
>be #defined (even for sites not "on" the Internet, and even for
>sites not running pathalias).  Path: lines DO NOT WORK FOR REPLY.

One way to fix this would be to put a bogus user name as the last
component of the Path: for newly posted articles.  Come to think of
it, articles posted here via nntp all have `news' as the user name!
That's not much use for replies.
-- 
-Gary Mills-             -University of Manitoba-             -Winnipeg-