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From: sanand@sp90.uucp
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Path/From lines
Message-ID: <1990Aug17.170955.378@sp90.uucp>
Date: 17 Aug 90 17:09:55 GMT
Sender: sanand@sp90.uucp
Organization: Sanand Patel
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Writes cudep@warwick.ac.uk (Ian Dickinson)

>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.
>--

I am using Pnews directly. I have yet to succesfully get nn to post an
article (working on it).