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From: heather@athena.cs.uga.edu (Heather Pritchett)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Client posting problem in cnews
Message-ID: <1991Apr26.120925.24336@athena.cs.uga.edu>
Date: 26 Apr 91 12:09:25 GMT
Sender: heather@athena.cs.uga.edu (Heather Pritchett)
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens
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The Problem: Clients can only post locally, no matter what
	distribution they give.

The Supposed Solution: Change the 'L' flag in your /usr/lib/news/sys
	to 'L1', since just an 'L' defaults to 'L0' and that means
	clients can only post locally. Sounds like the perfect solution?

The Continued Problem: Client posts still don't go out. They get placed
	in the out.going file, but nntpsend refuses to send them.

The Problem Narrowed Down: After a little fiddling it is discovered that
	what is missing from the client messages is the date. If a date
	is borrowed from a working message and placed on the bottom of
	the header, the message gets sent out. (we test posted to alt.test)

Just To Confuse Matters: I went back to the /usr/lib/news/sys file and
	changed the flag back to just 'L', then I added a date to the
	bottom of a message. It went out?!? Apparently the 'L' flag made
	no difference!

The Facts: Our server is a Sun 4/380, running SunOS 4.1.1. We're using 
	rn, v 4.3.2.4 (patch #47), and NNTP server version 1.5.10.

Question #1: Am I using the L flag correctly?
Question #2: Would changing the default header to include the date
	allow clients to post? 
Question #3: If so, where do I change the clients default header?

If none of the above questions are valid does anyone have any ideas as
to what would work?

E-mail or Post, I read both!

Heather Pritchett                           Computer Science Dept, 
heather@athena.cs.uga.edu                   University of Georgia