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From: mp@whuxle.UUCP (Mark Plotnick)
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: Re: inews bug? (the "not contributor" problem)
Message-ID: <423@whuxle.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 31-May-84 20:44:33 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 31 20:44:33 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 2-Jun-84 11:33:13 EDT
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It's not strictly a bug, but it's a little annoying because other bugs
prevent some articles from being cancelled.  The problem is that
c_cancel compares the entire From (or Sender) field.  In the case you
cited, my name when I sent the article was "(Mark Plotnick)", but when
I cancelled it I was su'ed and inews didn't look for my .name file, so
the cancel article said "(Plotnick Mark)" which is my gecos entry.

The From fields may also differ if the poster's domain is not ".UUCP".
Articles that pass through cmcl2!rna!n44a!wjh12 will have any domain
stripped and ".UUCP" added.  Sigh.

The solution to all this was posted by Jim Rees a couple of months
ago.  In c_cancel, just do the string comparison only up to the first ' '
or '.'.
	Mark