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From: david@wiley.UUCP (David Hull)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: What do I put in Path?
Message-ID: <8988@wiley.UUCP>
Date: 28 Feb 90 09:32:46 GMT
References: <8950@wiley.UUCP> <EMV.90Feb22171219@duby.math.lsa.umich.edu>
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In article <EMV.90Feb22171219@duby.math.lsa.umich.edu> emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) writes:
>An arguably right thing to do is to put the name of your mail hub
>(or your news hub) in the Path: and squash out all of the client
>names.

The problem with this is that some newsreaders actually use the Path:
to route replies.  The NNTP server is not going to have the same set
of users as all potential clients, and keeping track of the other
machines on the network is hard enough, much less the users on those
machines.

-David