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Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu!lamy
From: lamy@ai.toronto.edu (Jean-Francois Lamy)
Subject: Path header vs moderated newsgroups
Message-ID: <88Mar7.080633est.27152@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto, AI group
Date: 	Mon, 7 Mar 88 06:06:26 EST

Articles posted to some moderated newsgroups (e.g. comp.ai.digest) arrive here
with a Path: header that ends with (e.g) ucbvax!foo.bar.com!user.

Am I right in thinking that users at foo.bar.com will never see that article
(if the same site name is used for mail and news)?  Worse, if the From_ line
was used to construct the Path, all intervening mail relays may also miss
it if they use the same name for mail and news?

Assuming I am right, methinks articles with an Approved: header should not be
thrown out without checking that they are indeed real duplicates.  This seems
a better solution than having moderators throw away the From_ data, or
suggesting that everyone use a fake news.bar.com machine name in the news
headers (which is what we may end up doing)
 
Jean-Francois Lamy
AI Group, Department of Computer Science           lamy@ai.toronto.edu
University of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4              uunet!ai.toronto.edu!lamy