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From: fenner@jazz.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: MSDOS news support
Keywords: rnews msdos
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.094454.857@ecl.psu.edu>
Date: 19 Mar 91 13:44:52 GMT
References: <1991Mar13.220119.20064@newcastle.ac.uk> <305@dogear.UUCP>
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In article <305@dogear.UUCP> root@dogear.UUCP (Bob Kirkpatrick) writes:
|You should give fsuucp a try. FSUUCP supports mail and news, with readnews and
|postnews facilities. It's pretty well documanted and may be anonymous ftp'd
|from simtel20. You can also send mail to request-fsuucp@polyslo.calpoly.edu.

I had some serious troubles with fsuucp; I was told that most of the bugs
that I had problems with were fixed in 1.2 .

One thing that I _really_ have a problem with is that the default From:
lines are unqualified; there's a place for a "logname" and "sysname" (logname
is UUCP name, sysname is domain name) and the From: lines by default use
logname.  The way to use sysname is also misdocumented, so I had to play
a bit to get my From: working right.

One would think that the default would be a qualified name instead of
the absolutely useless unqualified one.

  Bill
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