Xref: utzoo news.config:1770 news.admin:10676 news.software.b:5834
Path: utzoo!utstat!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!vsi1!lmb
From: lmb@vicom.com (Larry Blair)
Newsgroups: news.config,news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Apology for repostings in alt - 2 C News bugs
Message-ID: <1990Sep24.220833.230@vicom.com>
Date: 24 Sep 90 22:08:33 GMT
Organization: Vicom Systems, Inc., Fremont, CA
Lines: 18

Bug 1:

An admin here reposted everything that he found in `junk' (I stopped creating
alt groups long ago) by removing the Message-ID and using `inews -d local'.
Unfortunately, our version of C News (PL 18, if you were counting) only
inserts `Distribution: local' if there is no Distribution header already
present.  As a result, any of the repostings that already had a Distribution
header got sent out to the world with a new Message-ID.

Bug 2: (or maybe not)

The path contained in the reposting shows `Path: vsi1!vsi1!...'.  I'm pretty
sure that 2.11 checked for your site in the path to prevent propagation loops.
C News obviously doesn't.  Is this a bug (or a feature :-)?  The path has to
be scanned to determine whether to pass the article or not so why not check to
see if your site is already in the list?
-- 
Larry Blair   ames!vsi1!lmb   lmb@vicom.com