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From: arnold@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Arnold de Leon)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Pnews causes inews to reject .signatures
Summary: Pnews does not need to append From: lines
Keywords: rn Pnews .signature
Message-ID: <4338@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 12 Feb 90 08:23:55 GMT
References: <4331@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> <FL8!2=@rpi.edu>
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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In <4331@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> I wrote:

[.signature not being included by inews if "From:" line present]

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

In article <FL8!2=@rpi.edu> tale@cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) writes:
>
>There are several fixes and this is one of the worst.

David is right, there are better fixes.  When I posted the original
article I had not tested other solutions.  Pnews can leave the 
"From:" and "Reply-To:" lines out entirely.  At least with B news
(PL 19) inews will insert a valid "From:" line.
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Arnold de Leon                       arnold@jarthur.claremont.edu
Computer Science Dept., HMC          uunet!jarthur!arnold
Claremont, CA 91711                  arnold@hmcvax.bitnet