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From: stephen@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Stephen J. Muir)
Newsgroups: net.news.adm,net.news.b
Subject: News 2.10.2 screws up From line, does 2.10.3?
Message-ID: <340@comp.lancs.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 6-Aug-86 15:46:31 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug  6 15:46:31 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 9-Aug-86 05:33:12 EDT
Reply-To: stephen@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Stephen J. Muir)
Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.
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One of our users has his FULLNAME set to "Rodge-Baby!!".  (Our system manager
won't let me stop users running "chfn").  In our particular case, it is
retrieved from the /etc/passwd file in Berkeley format.  When he submits a
news article, the From line becomes:

From: rodger@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Baby!!)

I do not see any point in deleting anything before the hyphen.  To make matters
worse, when it arrives at one of our neighbouring sites, it gets rewritten
again.  One of them changed it to:

From: rodger@dcl-cs.ac.uk

and another to:

From: rodger@cs.strath.ac.uk

They are also running 2.10.2 news.  This is ludicrous!  Why munge the From
line?  The From line should be left completely alone -- I see no reason to
change it.

As far as news is concerned, the Path line is the only one that needs modified.
As far as mail is concerned, only the Reply-To line should be used (although I
don't see any reason to modify this either).

Now, if the From line contained

From: dcl-cs!rodger

*then* I can see the sense in changing it, but not otherwise.
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