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From: taylor@hplabsc.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: MAJOR bug in inews 2.11
Message-ID: <1270@hplabsc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Feb-87 14:20:48 EST
Article-I.D.: hplabsc.1270
Posted: Mon Feb  9 14:20:48 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 10-Feb-87 05:55:01 EST
References: <1252@hplabsc.UUCP> <7980@decwrl.DEC.COM>
Reply-To: taylor@hplabsc.UUCP (Dave Taylor)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA
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Brian Reid talks about the motley evolution of the "-M" flag for the 
latest version of inews in reference to my bug posting, and then says

>Actually, there is a very good reason why you don't want a uucp-style from
>line in a submitted news article, but inews should probably warn you about it
>rather than fix it for you. The news distribution mechanism looks at the path
>line to see who has seen an article and who hasn't. 

What's wrong with this statement?  We've suddenly moved from the From:
line to the Path: line!  I *know* what the various headers in the message
are for, and I would certainly *not* want to mess with the Path: field
too much (I would like to be able to change the base mailing address though,
so the path could be something like "Path: hplabsc!comp-soc" when it started
out, rather than "hplabsc!taylor", but that's another story entirely).  
Nonetheless I still haven't been told why the FROM line cannot have a uucp
style address.

My original statement stands:  

	The inability to handle uucp-style From: lines when using the 
	'-M' flag is a bug in inews that should be fixed immediately.

						-- Dave Taylor
						taylor@hplabs.HP.COM

ps: The message Brian sent must have been one of the 180+ messages I
    lost while at USENIX.  Perhaps you could send it to me again, Brian?