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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Strange Header
Message-ID: <1990Oct1.151249.16328@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Sep27.211815.16843@mccc.uucp> <1990Sep29.221734.4086@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Sep30.230320.970@mccc.uucp>
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 90 15:12:49 GMT

In article <1990Sep30.230320.970@mccc.uucp> pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) writes:
>=>But when you read it, the "Sender:" line will say 
>=>	Sender: pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg)
>=
>=It's a combination of things inside inews.  An empty header line is, in
>=general, a violation of RFC1036; it may or may not be legal mail, but it
>=is not legal news.  So inews is filling it in for you.
>
>So part of the problem is the Cnews' Pnews not filling in the "Sender:"
>line and the other is the Cnews inews assuming we're ".uucp."  Now, as I
>don't see other people with this problem, they must have modified Pnews
>and inews???  Or did you fix it in a patch that I have yet to apply?

Pnews is part of rn (I think), and does not come with C News.  If it is
feeding empty header lines into inews, that is a bug.  I would hope that
people experiencing this have fixed Pnews.
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