cliff@demon.co.uk (Cliff Stanford) (04/28/91)
Using C-news, when postings come from this machine, the Path: line comes after the Newsgroups: line. Every other posting seems to have its Path: line first (ie before the From: line). Why is this and should I care? Thanks, Cliff. -- Cliff Stanford Email: cliff@demon.co.uk (Work) Demon Systems Limited cms@demon.co.uk (Home) 42 Hendon Lane Phone: 081-349 0063 (Office) London N3 1TT England 0860 375870 (Mobile)
geoff@world.std.com (Geoff Collyer) (04/29/91)
Cliff Stanford: >Using C-news, when postings come from this machine, the Path: >line comes after the Newsgroups: line. Every other posting seems to >have its Path: line first (ie before the From: line). Why is this >and should I care? (Hmm, another one for the FAQ list.) RFC 822 (cited by RFC 1036) says that no particular header order is required, so you aren't allowed to care :-). (RFC 850 reiterated this.) The reason for different orders is different implementations. C inews puts out a few headers at the start for the benefit of relaynews, then puts out the rest in an apparently-random order. relaynews doesn't reorder headers; B rnews seems to reorder headers of articles passing through into some canonical order. -- Geoff Collyer world.std.com!geoff, uunet.uu.net!geoff