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From: rick@seismo.UUCP (Rick Adams)
Newsgroups: net.news.b,net.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: 2.10.2 ignores Followup-To lines
Message-ID: <5246@seismo.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 14-Nov-84 19:22:52 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 14 19:22:52 1984
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Organization: Center for Seismic Studies, Arlington, VA
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> I just made a disturbing discovery which I'm suprised no one else seems to
> have reported yet.  Specifically: 2.10.2 news ignores "Followup-To:" lines.
> The offending piece of code is the following in readr.c:
> 
> This is not a mere accidental bug; 2.10.2 doesn't even  a t t e m p t  to
> replace the newsgroups named in the  "Newsgroups:" line with those in the
> "Followup-To:" line.  Is there any reason for this omission?  As far as I'm
> concerned, the Followup-To capability of 2.10.1 was an important if somewhat
> underused feature, and the fact that 2.10.2 would leave it out makes me
> somewhat suspicious of the new release.  What other features of existing news
> software have been quietly deleted?
> 

I guess I should be pleased that some people think I am incapable of an
accidental bug...

I'm sorry to disappoint everyone, but there's no star chamber deviously
ripping parts out of the news software. I screwed up. (Gasp!)

Anyway, stick the following 2 lines at the end of followup() in postnews.c
and everything will be happy.

	if (article_line(baseart, "Followup-To: ", buf))
		(void) strcpy(newsgroups, buf+13);

---rick