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From: molenda@cs.umn.edu (Jason "Hax R Us" Molenda)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: rn patches (for Cnews)
Message-ID: <1990Feb25.184829.21547@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 25 Feb 90 18:48:29 GMT
References: <1990Feb24.234114.10326@cs.umn.edu> <1990Feb25.025454.19208@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.
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henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:


>Uh, really?  Can you elaborate?  The rn we're running here is a rev 40
>that got some further hacking at Waterloo, but we have made no, repeat no,
>changes to make it work with C News.  C News's Xrefs header is absolutely
>standard as far as I know, and we have not modified rn for it.  This is
>the first we've heard of any problem.

hm.  Here's a quote from relay/README.relay:

If you plan to run rn, you'll need the rn patches to allow Xref: to
work without Relay-Version:, which has been banished.

I didn't really understand it; our old Bnews articles don't have any
Relay-Version: headers as near as I can tell, but I figured that it matched
our prblem:  rn is not working with cross-posted articles.  Other news
readers (nn, gnus) work correctly.  rn (patchlevel #44) does not.  The only
difference in the message headers is that Cnews is putting the Xref:
header at the top of the headers whereas Bnews puts them at the bottom
(as near as I can tell).  We tried posting a cross-posted article and moving
the Xref: to the bottom of the headers and it didn't help any..

  -jason