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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
Newsgroups: net.news.adm,net.news.b
Subject: Re: News 2.10.2 screws up From line, does 2.10.3?
Message-ID: <2384@cbosgd.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 9-Aug-86 23:10:16 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug  9 23:10:16 1986
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In article <340@comp.lancs.ac.uk> stephen@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Stephen J. Muir) writes:
>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.

But then, you aren't running System V.  The RJE convention looks like this:

 * (b) BTL RJE: the gecos field looks like
 *	: junk - full name ( junk :
 *     where the "junk -" is optional.

Stripping out the junk is the right thing to do on such a system, but
it does lose for people with hyphenated names.  While it's hard to have
much sympathy for Rodge-Baby!!, there are people with legitimate
hyphenated names.

I had thought this code was ifdeffed, but evidently it isn't.  If you
look in fullname.c, in 2.10.*, you'll see the following code near the
beginning of buildname:

		if (*p == '-') {
			bp = buf;
			p++;
		}
This should be ifdeffed or taken out if you don't run RJE.

>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

I have no idea whether comp.lancs.ac.uk is equivalent to dcl-cs.ac.uk
or cs.strath.ac.uk, but in general, you're right, the From line isn't
supposed to be munged once it gets enterred onto the net.  B news doesn't
alter it, as far as I know; perhaps something else strange is going on.

	Mark