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From: cudep@warwick.ac.uk (Ian Dickinson)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Path/From lines
Message-ID: <1990Aug16.112249.10915@warwick.ac.uk>
Date: 16 Aug 90 11:22:49 GMT
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In article <1990Aug14.153657.18531@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <1990Aug13.162742.2031@sp90.uucp> sanand@sp90.uucp () writes:
>>Can someone help me track down where my PATH line is generated.

>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.

It's certainly was there on recent (pl40 upwards, but not pl47?)
versions of rn/rrn.

The Pnews.header includes it for nntp posting, giving:

news-host!nntp-posting-host!user

I just removed the Path definition in Pnews.header because I want
to 'site hide' anyway.

Of course, if sanand isn't using rn, sorry.
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