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From: root@hobbes.UUCP (John Plocher)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: A simple problem with feeding someone else
Message-ID: <166@hobbes.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Aug-87 20:02:41 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug  5 20:02:41 1987
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+---- John Owens writes (Quoting me)
| > The problem is every article posted gets to hobbes and then back to circle!
| 
| Check to make sure the articles leave their system with "circle" at
| the head of the path:
| 
| 	Path: circle!user
+----
Yup, that's it.  He was using the line:

	Path: circle

Note that in the document _Standard for Interchange of USENET Messages_
(DRAFT RFCxxx which Obsoletes RFC 850 - Included with V2.11 News) under
the heading 2.1.6.  Path:

  "Normally, the rightmost name will be the name of the originating system.
  However, it is also permissible to include an extra entry on the right,
  which is the name of the sender.  This is for upward compatibility with
  older systems"

Is this a bug in v2.11 that it requires kludges to support "older systems"?
(ie, is v2.11 an older system?)

Thanks to these people who responded by email, too:
    Dave Cohrs		Roger Rose	Rich $alz	Larry Campbell
    David S. Hayes	Joe Buck	Michael Gersten
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John Plocher uwvax!geowhiz!uwspan!plocher  plocher%uwspan.UUCP@uwvax.CS.WISC.EDU