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From: dtynan@altos86.UUCP (Dermot Tynan)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: 'inews 2.11.14' problems...
Keywords: inews, From:, V7...
Message-ID: <883@altos86.UUCP>
Date: 28 Mar 89 02:04:46 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Altos Computer Systems, San Jose, CA.
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As the moderator of comp.unix, I ran into a problem with inews and From:
fields.  Basically, if I approve a posting, header.c checks for a From: line.
Unless it is a domain-style From:, it will dump it, meaning that 'inews' will
put *my* address in there.  This is very awkward, for obvious reasons.  The
mod. I made, was to delete the check for domain-style addressing.  This means
that certain bang-path addresses now appear in the From: field, which is not
good, but it seems like this is the only alternative.  If anyone knows of a
better way to get around this, I'd like to hear about it.  As I understand it,
sites aren't supposed to muck with the From: field, as it passes through, but
then again, they're not supposed to do lots of things.

A second note (or piece of trivia), is that although 'inews' has compilation
support for V7, the code which updates the 'active' file uses mode "r+" to
fopen.  In checking my V7 programmers manual, this mode option wasn't available
then.  Is there anyone out there running news on a V7 box, who'd like to
comment???
						- Der