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From: garyg@hpscdc.HP.COM (Gary Gitzen)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Re: Warning: April Fools Time again (forged messages on the loose!)
Message-ID: <4750002@hpscdc.HP.COM>
Date: 30 Mar 88 19:45:47 GMT
References: <1590@sigma.UUCP>
Organization: HP, Santa Clara, CA
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Chuq writes:

>There is code in inews that checks the "Path:" line for a given host name.
>If that host name is in the "Path:" line, inews decides that the site's
>already seen the message, and won't tranmit again. 

>I've always felt this is a bug...........

This "bug" prevents your transmitting the news items you receive back
to your newsfeed. 
And maybe them sending it back to you, and you to them ......

>It also means that if there is another machine on the net with your
>site name on it, you'll never see postings from it, so you may never find
>out they exist. Unfortunately, the code is deeply ingrained in the net, so
>it's rather hard to change.

Sounds like a good reason to register one's sitename. If newsfeeds were
routed only to registered sites, the problem wouldn't occur.

Gary Gitzen
garyg@hpscdc.hp.com
hplabs!hpscda!garyg