lamy@ai.toronto.edu (Jean-Francois Lamy) (03/07/88)
Articles posted to some moderated newsgroups (e.g. comp.ai.digest) arrive here with a Path: header that ends with (e.g) ucbvax!foo.bar.com!user. Am I right in thinking that users at foo.bar.com will never see that article (if the same site name is used for mail and news)? Worse, if the From_ line was used to construct the Path, all intervening mail relays may also miss it if they use the same name for mail and news? Assuming I am right, methinks articles with an Approved: header should not be thrown out without checking that they are indeed real duplicates. This seems a better solution than having moderators throw away the From_ data, or suggesting that everyone use a fake news.bar.com machine name in the news headers (which is what we may end up doing) Jean-Francois Lamy AI Group, Department of Computer Science lamy@ai.toronto.edu University of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4 uunet!ai.toronto.edu!lamy