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From: johnb@HOBBES.MDC.COM (John Breen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re:  news, mailing lists, and making the twain meet
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Date: 24 Jun 91 19:23:19 GMT
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In a previous posting, I wrote:
>Well, I've just about got a local news system going, with this mailing list
>fed into it, but one thing worries me [...] I see a potential for an infinite
>loop: the mail to [the mail alias] will go to inews, which will mail it to
>apollo@engin.umich.edu, which will send it back to [the alias], ...

Well, it looks like I do have a few problems, since my posting popped up
twice (honest, I only sent it once).  However, I don't even have the mailing
list going to the alias yet, so it's not the infinite loop I was worried about
:-).  The From: line really confuses me...

    From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde
    !elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!news.arc.nasa.gov!aplvax!johnb@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU
    (John Breen)

If I understand the "bang" syntax, this is saying that I sent it from
'aplvax', which is wrong (in fact, my host isn't even in the header).  All I
did was post with rn.  Anyone got any ideas? (refer to the original posting
for how I've got some things set up).

Anyway, I think I've found the answer to my original question - the mail
loop is avoided by using '-a' with inews (which adds an 'Approved:' line to
the message); my thanks to David Burren for giving me a hint many weeks ago.

I'm really sorry about all of trouble I'm causing - hopefully, I'll have this
all fixed soon.