Path: utzoo!utstat!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!omni!bob
From: bob@omni.com (Bob Weissman)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Path: problems...
Summary: Fixable in Pnews.header
Message-ID: <4432@borabora.omni.com>
Date: 19 Sep 90 16:43:23 GMT
References: <704@gagme.chi.il.us> <929@hexagon.se>
Organization: OMNI Solutions, Mountain View, CA
Lines: 48

In article <929@hexagon.se> daniel@hexagon.se (Daniel Deimert) writes:
>In article <704@gagme.chi.il.us> greg@gagme.chi.il.us (Gregory Gulik) writes:
>>
>>It seems that inews is writing my path as  gagme!gagme.chi.il.us
>>instead of gagme!greg
>>
>>Has anyone had this problem before?  How can I fix it?  Where
>>can I find the latest version??
>
>I'm having exactly the same problem: Just doing a Pnews alone results in
>"Path: hexagon!hexagon.se" instead of "hexagon!daniel".  (Bnews 2.11.19)
>But when I'm doing a follow-up from within rn (like now), the Path: is
>correct.  Why?

It's a bug in inews which is tickled by the Pnews.header file.

You can fix it easily by removing the "@$sitename" from the "From:"
header thusly:

*** /usr/local/lib/news/rn/Pnews.header.old	Tue Sep 18 16:49:52 1990
--- /usr/local/lib/news/rn/Pnews.header		Tue Sep 18 17:11:42 1990
***************
*** 179,185 ****
  esac
  
  $cat > $tmpart <<EOHeader
! From: $logname@$sitename ($fullname)
  Newsgroups: $ng
  Subject: $title
  References: 
--- 179,185 ----
  esac
  
  $cat > $tmpart <<EOHeader
! From: $logname ($fullname)
  Newsgroups: $ng
  Subject: $title
  References: 


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Bob Weissman
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UUCP:		...!{apple,decwrl,pyramid,sgi,uunet}!omni!bob
-- 
Bob Weissman
Internet:	bob@omni.com
UUCP:		...!{apple,decwrl,pyramid,sgi,uunet}!omni!bob