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From: tale@cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Pnews causes inews to reject .signatures
Message-ID: <FL8!2=@rpi.edu>
Date: 12 Feb 90 06:45:48 GMT
References: <4331@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
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In <4331@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> arnold@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Arnold de Leon):
> Rn patches 41-44 removed the "Reply-To:" from Pnews.  Instead a "From:" this
> inserted. Unfortunately this causes inews (from B news Pl. 19) to not append
> the .signature files.  Tracking this was particularly fun since followups
> worked just fine.

> A fix would be to have Pnews generate a "Reply-To:" lines instead of
> "From:" lines.

There are several fixes and this is one of the worst.  Look at the
article you posted.  The From: line and Reply-To: line are exactly the
same.  Now, since From: is a required header line and Reply-To: is not
why not just save everyone the bytes and keep the Reply-To: line out
all together?

You could:

a) Not have B News inews only append .signature if there is a
   Reply-To:.  (Does it really behave this way?  Why?)

b) Insert your .signature manually each time or come up with some
   better way to have it happen automatically.  Adding Reply-To: is
   not a better way.

c) Switch to C News.  This is very much admittedly overkill for this
   but you have the benefit of an inews that you can change easily to
   reflect local policy and an inews that does not behave like you
   have described by default.

d) Don't use a .signature.  Then you're saving even more bytes.