Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!ukma!david From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Somebody is messing up headers!!! Message-ID: <9303@g.ms.uky.edu> Date: 17 May 88 14:58:38 GMT References: <10222@ncc.Nexus.CA> Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Distribution: na Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 50 In article <10222@ncc.Nexus.CA> lyndon@ncc.Nexus.CA (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes: >A 'version' control message came out of oddjob a few days ago. Along >the line somebody has been adding spaces and newlines to the Path: >header. ... >Here is a copy of the original control message as it arrived on ncc. My >guess is that uwmcsd1 is a BITNET site (8 char field padded with spaces). >Dunno about the newline after bloom-beacon ... >Path: ncc!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!nrl-cmf!ukma!psuvm.bitnet!cunyvm!nysernic!cmx!batcomputer!cornell!rochester!udel!burdvax!sdcrdcf!oberon!bloom-beacon > !tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!uwmcsd1 !dogie!uwvax!oddjob!amd >From: bbtest1@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Matt Crawford) >Newsgroups: news.admin.ctl >Subject: version >Message-ID: >Date: 12 May 88 18:22:46 GMT >Organization: University of Chicago >Lines: 4 >Control: version >Distribution: usa >Lines: 0 >Approved: Matt Sigh, I have to claim responsibility for the newline after bloom-beacon. We have a link with psuvm.bitnet over bitnet which occasionally does things like this. I've never tracked down the exact problem but what happens is that long Path: lines get split in two either here or at psuvm. I've always assumed that it's because the stuff which comes here from them is 132 column wide PRINT files and something in their software is wrapping the lines around. Sorry for the trouble, but such messing with the Path: line is the least of my worries about that news link. I'm more worried about tab -> space translations and the like. Anyway, you're not supposed to be using the Path: line for replies, so no excuses :-). There's more problems with that article as quoted than just the Path: line, the Control: line and the rest have been moved down to the body as well. I have no idea where that could have happend though. -- <---- David Herron -- The E-Mail guy <---- or: {rutgers,uunet,cbosgd}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <---- <---- Goodbye RAH.