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From: dave@lsuc.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: serious problem - mod articles not sent to mailing site
Message-ID: <1644@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 17-Mar-87 12:28:07 EST
Article-I.D.: lsuc.1644
Posted: Tue Mar 17 12:28:07 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 18-Mar-87 00:39:52 EST
References: <1626@lsuc.UUCP> <1830@blia.BLI.COM>
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Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Summary: fix has to be done at the moderator's end?

In article <1830@blia.BLI.COM> ted@blia.BLI.COM (Ted Marshall) writes:
>
>This has happened to me too, using mod.computers.vax. However, the problem
>stopped about the time we changed our newsfeed node from bigbang to voder.
>In both cases, the path begins at my node so I assume that some sites have
>fixed their software to pass a message on even if the path indicates that
>it came from there.

Nope, that can't be it, since articles should not be sent to a
site which actually has had them once AS USENET ARTICLES. Otherwise
they'd go around the net forever.

The fix is for moderators and automoderator-maintainers to fix
their posting software so that the Path: line DOES NOT include
anything which identifies the person who mailed the submission.
The From: line should indeed include that information, but not
Path:, or the article will never get downstream from the mailing
site and any other sites showing up in the mail information.

Please, anyone who is maintaining a mod.* group, check whether
you are including the mailer's name on the Path: line, and if
so, stop it at once! Thanks.

David Sherman
The Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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