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From: jbuck@epimass.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: MAJOR bug in inews 2.11
Message-ID: <877@epimass.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Feb-87 13:31:03 EST
Article-I.D.: epimass.877
Posted: Mon Feb  9 13:31:03 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 10-Feb-87 05:38:22 EST
References: <1252@hplabsc.UUCP>
Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.UUCP (Joe Buck)
Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <1252@hplabsc.UUCP> taylor@hplabsc.UUCP (Dave Taylor) writes:
>Now that I've bashed my head into the wall for the past four hours
>trying to track this one down, it seems that the "-M" flag in the
>latest version of inews (2.11) is semi-worthless due to a bug.

>Specifically, if I hand it a "from" line that is in uucp notation
>rather than internet (e.g. hplabs!taylor instead of taylor@hplabs)
>it will ignore the '-M' and make the From: be the person invoking
>inews instead.  

The purpose of the From: line is for mail replies (unless a Reply-To
field is present).  Using the UUCP path you see at hplabs will not
work.  If you change inews the way you want to, the From line will
be useless.  It may as well point to you, as opposed to pointing
nowhere.
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- Joe Buck 	{hplabs,ihnp4,sun,ames}!oliveb!epimass!jbuck	HASA (A,S)
  Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, California