[news.software.b] Cnews and multiple Path: headers

jay@banzai.PCC.COM (Jay Schuster) (12/01/89)

An odd article in rec.humor just came to our site.  It had *two*
Path: headers.  Cnews dutifully prepended our machine name to both
of them, but presumably detected that our upstream wasn't on the
second (empty) Path: line and so it also sent it back to them.

Someone's software was BD'd enough to allow this creation on
to the net, so I guess we should protect ourselves.

We are a leaf site running Cnews with up through the 13-Nov-89
patch.

I noticed this article because we are a leaf site, and as such,
the only articles we send to our (one) neighbor originate here.  I
noticed an article leaving our site today with a non-local message-id.

This was the article:

>Path: banzai!uvm-gen!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ucdavis!uucp
>From: uucp@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu (uucp)
>Newsgroups: rec.humor
>Subject: Mike's Madness #15
>Message-ID: <6075@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
>Date: 29 Nov 89 05:21:14 GMT
>Reply-To: uunet!sun!pacbell!sactoh0!mjb (Mike Beebe)
>Organization: Yucks For You, Inc., Sacramento, CA
>Lines: 224
>Keywords: Mike's Madness #15
>Path: banzai!

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