Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Path/From lines
Message-ID: <1990Aug14.153657.18531@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Aug13.162742.2031@sp90.uucp>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 90 15:36:57 GMT

In article <1990Aug13.162742.2031@sp90.uucp> sanand@sp90.uucp () writes:
>Can someone help me track down where my PATH line is generated. The problem
>is that (I assume) it should read:
>
>	Path: sp90!sanand  or
>	Path: sp90.uucp!sanand
>but not
>	Path: sp90!sp90.uucp!sanand.
>
>I am running Cnews. The path is OK before "inews", but somewhere after,
>the header gets broken.

Uh, why is there a Path before inews at all?  For normal news postings,
inews should be generating Path for you.  Only in specialized situations,
like gatewaying of mail to news, should there be a Path line in the input
to inews.  That is the problem:  inews sees the Path line, says "hmm, he
must know what he's doing", and leaves it alone, passing the article to
relaynews, which does what it's supposed to do and prepends the local
host name to Path.  You need to look *before* inews and figure out where
that "sp90.uucp!sanand" is coming from.
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