rick@seismo.UUCP (Rick Adams) (11/15/84)
> I just made a disturbing discovery which I'm suprised no one else seems to > have reported yet. Specifically: 2.10.2 news ignores "Followup-To:" lines. > The offending piece of code is the following in readr.c: > > This is not a mere accidental bug; 2.10.2 doesn't even a t t e m p t to > replace the newsgroups named in the "Newsgroups:" line with those in the > "Followup-To:" line. Is there any reason for this omission? As far as I'm > concerned, the Followup-To capability of 2.10.1 was an important if somewhat > underused feature, and the fact that 2.10.2 would leave it out makes me > somewhat suspicious of the new release. What other features of existing news > software have been quietly deleted? > I guess I should be pleased that some people think I am incapable of an accidental bug... I'm sorry to disappoint everyone, but there's no star chamber deviously ripping parts out of the news software. I screwed up. (Gasp!) Anyway, stick the following 2 lines at the end of followup() in postnews.c and everything will be happy. if (article_line(baseart, "Followup-To: ", buf)) (void) strcpy(newsgroups, buf+13); ---rick