Xref: utzoo alt.bbs.waffle:857 news.software.b:6625
Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!spool2.mu.edu!samsung!umich!terminator!pisa.ifs.umich.edu!rees
From: rees@pisa.ifs.umich.edu (Jim Rees)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.waffle,news.software.b,fido.ufgate
Subject: Re: Moving news thru waffle node, with out decompression
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Date: 14 Jan 91 17:10:12 GMT
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In article <1iuPV1w164w@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>, mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:

  	1. Each site an article passes through must add its node name
  	to the Path: header line.  Obviously, you can't do this to a
  	compressed news batch.

The path is just a clue as to how the article got here.  If it's wrong, it
doesn't break anything that wasn't already broken (like software that tries
to reply along the path).