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From: malcolm@ecn-ee.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: 'Notesfile' sites please note - (nf)
Message-ID: <1202@pur-ee.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 3-Dec-83 18:34:05 EST
Article-I.D.: pur-ee.1202
Posted: Sat Dec  3 18:34:05 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 4-Dec-83 09:30:15 EST
Sender: notes@pur-ee.UUCP
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#R:ittvax:-114700:ecn-ee:16900001:000:2409
ecn-ee!malcolm    Dec  3 15:03:00 1983

I'm not sure if this fixes the problem that ittvax!swatt is seeing, but
it did fix a problem that pur-ee had.  

A Notesfiles site needs to run a program called newsoutput to submit 
everything that was written for notes and submit it to news.  Notes 
supplies a fake return address for inews but there is a bug in news 
2.10 that causes this to fail.  The return path then causes the news 
"Reply" command to reply to the notes account instead of the real account.

						Malcolm

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Date: 18 Nov 83 17:19:55 EST (Fri)
From: cbosgd!mark (Mark Horton)
Subject: Re:  News 2.10 Problem
To: pur-ee!malcolm

I have noticed notes doing this lately.  I think there must be a bug
in 2.10 causing -f not to work properly.

I seem to recall a similar bug involving net.announce.  I'm enclosing
a diff from 2.10's inews.c to the current one - please try this out
and let me know if it fixes the problem.

	Mark

*** oinews.c	Fri Nov 18 17:15:17 1983
--- inews.c	Fri Sep  2 10:39:32 1983
***************
*** 2,8
   * inews - insert, receive, and transmit news articles.
   */
  
! static char *SccsId = "@(#)inews.c	2.29	5/3/83";
  
  #include "iparams.h"
  

--- 2,8 -----
   * inews - insert, receive, and transmit news articles.
   */
  
! static char *SccsId = "%W%	%G%";
  
  #include "iparams.h"
  
***************
*** 297,303
  			/* Allow the user to supply some headers. */
  			hread(&header, stdin, FALSE);
  			/* But there are certain fields we won't let him specify. */
! 			if (header.from)
  				strcpy(forgedname, header.from);
  			header.from[0] = '\0';
  			header.path[0] = '\0';

--- 297,303 -----
  			/* Allow the user to supply some headers. */
  			hread(&header, stdin, FALSE);
  			/* But there are certain fields we won't let him specify. */
! 			if (header.from[0])
  				strcpy(forgedname, header.from);
  			header.from[0] = '\0';
  			header.path[0] = '\0';
***************
*** 308,314
  			ngcat(header.nbuf);
  		}
  		if (forgedname[0]) {
! 			gensender(&header, forgedname);
  			sprintf(header.sender, "%s@%s%s",
  				username, SYSNAME, MYDOMAIN);
  		} else {

--- 308,315 -----
  			ngcat(header.nbuf);
  		}
  		if (forgedname[0]) {
! 			strcpy(header.from, forgedname);
! 			strcpy(header.path, forgedname);
  			sprintf(header.sender, "%s@%s%s",
  				username, SYSNAME, MYDOMAIN);
  		} else {