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From: ccfj@quagga.uucp (F.F. Jacot Guillarmod)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: anne.jones struggling to find user name of process
Message-ID: <1990Oct18.191538.11392@quagga.uucp>
Date: 18 Oct 90 19:15:38 GMT
Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown RSA
Lines: 48

I am having peculiar problems using mail to post into a newsgroup.  The
following news article is the result of sending mail (via elm -> smail 3.1)
to <to.quagga@quagga> using the alias:

to.quagga:"|/usr/bin/inews -W -h -a rfc -n to.quagga"

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From to.quagga Thu Oct 18 20:42:54 1990
Newsgroups: to.quagga
Path: quagga!
>>>>>>>>>>>>> missing user name <<<<<<<<<<<<<
From: news@quagga
Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown RSA
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 90 09:46:09 GMT
Approved: rfc
Message-ID: <1990Oct18.094609.28749@quagga.uucp>
Sender: @quagga.uucp
>>>>>>>> missing user name <<<<<<<<<<<<
From news Thu Oct 18 11:45:56 1990
Return-Path: <news>
Received: by quagga.uucp (/\=-/\ Smail3.1.18.1 #18.17)
	id <m0iPWnd-00016ZC@quagga.uucp>; Thu, 18 Oct 90 11:44 sat
Message-Id: <m0iPWnd-00016ZC@quagga.uucp>
Sender: news (Rhodes News Administration)
Subject: test1
To: to.quagga@quagga
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 90 11:44:28 sat
From: Rhodes News Administration <news@quagga.uucp>
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL8]

test1
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The major problems are highlighted with >>>>>>> <<<<<<<<.  Note that
'inews' is the standard cnews version, and the hassle seems to be 
that the 'anne.jones' shell script can't work out the user name of
the process running the script.  Does 'anne.jones' assume that inews
will only ever be run interactively by a real live user?

Secondary problems are the multitude of From:, Sender: and other
headers.  While not directly related to cnews, this seems an appropriate
place to ask if there is a neat way of eliminating them.  Does it require
some front end to inews that performs a sed to zap them, or is there
a neat combination of parameters/utilities somewhere that will clean
things up?
-- 
 F.F. Jacot Guillarmod - Computing Centre - Rhodes University - Grahamstown
 Internet: ccfj.quagga@f4.n494.z5.fidonet.org  uucp: ..!m2xenix!quagga!ccfj