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From: dave@galaxia.zone1.com (David H. Brierley)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Using .UUCP (pseudo) domain too much
Keywords: From: line in news, domains
Message-ID: <539@galaxia.zone1.com>
Date: 6 Nov 88 03:20:27 GMT
References: <485.orcenl@orcenl.uucp>
Reply-To: dave@galaxia.zone1.com (David H. Brierley)
Organization: Dave's Very Own Personal System
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In article <485.orcenl@orcenl.uucp> news@orcenl.uucp (News adm'r, Bjorn Engsig) writes:
>
>I'm aware that this involves lots of news administrators, but it cannot
>be urged strongly enough to change the .UUCP to your proper domain, if
>you cannot be reached thru the uucp maps.  In news, version 2.11 you do
>it by defining MYDOMAIN or GENERICFROM in your defs.h via localize.sh.

Actually, this might not be the problem.  Unless there was a patch that I
missed, the Pnews program that is provided with rn is a likely candidate for
the cause of this problem.  When rn was first released it was before most of
the sites had started to become "domained" and Larry hard coded the .UUCP
into the shell script.  If you are running rn at your site I would suggest
you go to the directory that you have the source stored in and do a grep
for UUCP in all the .c, .h. and .SH files.  If memory serves me correctly
you will find three or four of them.  Edit all these files to reflect your
real domain name and then recompile and reinstall the programs.  This is
one of the only problems that I have ever had with rn.
-- 
David H. Brierley
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