Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!oz.cis.ohio-state.edu!bob From: bob@oz.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) Newsgroups: gnu.config Subject: Re: Mailinglists to the gnu.* groups? Message-ID: Date: 3 May 89 13:04:49 GMT References: <4963@eva.slu.se> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer & Information Science Lines: 35 In article <4963@eva.slu.se> pelle@eva.slu.se (OVE EWERLID) writes: It seems as if information that reaches the GNU newsgroups via mailinglists isn't forwarded to Sweden (it may include all of Europe). If information originated from mailinglists is supposed to reach Sweden(Europe?) they don't. Is there a way cure this information sink? I'm guessing that you sent an article to a mailing list and you didn't see it come back to you in the corresponding newsgroup. No, we're not discriminating against Swedes... The mail->news gatewaying software takes your From: line and turns that address into the next-to-last element in the news article's Path: line. The Path: line is used by all your news neighbors to decide whether to hand that article to your site - if they see you in the Path: line then they figure your site has already received that article and will economize the transmission time for that news batch by not including that article. This is a problem for those sites (like ours) that put their fully-qualified domain names in their mail and news From: line and their news Path: line, and for sites that put only a short UUCP nickname in both. If you put your FQDN in From: but a nickname in Path:, then you should see your article coming back to you. In general, if you use news, you should use news for everything in order to get consistent behavior. This conflicts with the FSF's preferences that you mail bug reports to the mailing lists, so it seems that you'll simply have to learn not to expect your mail to come back to you in news if your site is one with a consistent naming policy. (I'm still considering changing the gateway to put "...!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!nobody" in Path: of each article it constructs, so that this will no longer happen.)