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From: rsalz@bbn.com.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: pseudo inews puts client hostname in "Path:" line
Message-ID: <731@fig.bbn.com>
Date: 12 May 88 21:33:27 GMT
References: <21631@oliveb.olivetti.com> <13130@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Organization: BBN Laboratories Inc., Cambridge MA
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Posted: Thu May 12 17:33:27 1988

Jerry @ Olivetti writes:
    How about if the pseudo inews creats a "Path:" line of just "login"?
    Then the server news software should prefix it with "serverhost!".

Reply 1: phil@east.Berkeley.EDU (Phil Lapsley)
    Because that's not always right.  Consider the situation at Berkeley:
    When somebody posts news through pasteur, say from "cory.berkeley.edu",
    the path line becomes:
	Path: pasteur!cory.berkeley.edu!user
which is ok; any replies will get to pasteur ...


Reply 2: karl@cheops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste)
    But in our network, where news is available to all systems, undergrads
    have no access to the server machine.  Hence, if we simply have
    server!user in the Path: header, mail using that header will bounce.
    Thus, it is very necessary to us that the client be in the Path:.

Are my eyes deceiving me, or are you both really in favor of this
gross behavior just so that replies along the Path: line will work?

Say it ain't so, guys!
	/rich $alz
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