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From: fletcher@cs.utexas.edu (Fletcher Mattox)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: brentp@microsoft
Keywords: enough!
Message-ID: <3550@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 12 Oct 88 19:49:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.3550
References: <16262@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <16268@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <323@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU> <9073@bigtex.uucp>
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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In article <9073@bigtex.uucp> james@bigtex.UUCP (James Van Artsdalen) writes:
>Does nntp
>use the Path: line to prevent loops, or does it depend solely on the
>history file?

Actually, nntpxmit does a sanity check on the message-id and refuses to
propagate it.  I've added a similar check to inews.

Fletcher