Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!munnari!mulga!ditmela!latcs1!vertical!greg From: greg@vertical.oz (Greg Bond) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Problems with the cancel feature... Message-ID: <44@vertical.oz> Date: 23 Feb 88 07:41:19 GMT References: <3463@potomac.ads.com> Reply-To: greg@vertical.oz (Greg Bond) Organization: Vertical Software, Melbourne, Australia Lines: 14 In article <3463@potomac.ads.com> jtn@potomac.ads.com (John T. Nelson) writes: >Anyone know what causes this problem? Typing a 'c' (cancel) to an >article that you are author of complains that you are not the author. A common problem in places, such as Australia, that use internet addressing. vnews amd readnews assume bangland addressing, so the cancel code checks "vertical!greg" against "greg@vertical". Somehow, strcmp finds them different... Greg. -- #define WHOAMI Gregory Bond, Vertical Software, Melbourne, Australia #define ADDRESS greg@vertical.oz, uunet!vertical.oz!greg #define JOKE Ain't no-one here but us chickens... #include