lamy@ai.toronto.edu.UUCP (11/24/87)
In article <3920@pucc.Princeton.EDU> IRWIN@pucc.Princeton.EDU writes: >but it also generates a bad 'Reply-To' header (irwin@phoenix.UUCP). > >I assume that there is simply some rn definition I have neglected >to set. Can anyone point me in the right direction? The From: line is generated by inews, part of the Bnews 2.11 distribution, which generally has good domain manners, as does Cnews alpha, which we run here. These distributions are distinct from rn. 'rn' patchlevel 40 has bad domain manners, however. I had to go in the code to fix the following: - get rid of the hard coded .UUCP in the default headers, - fix Pnews.header to give a proper return address (when invoking Pnews on its own) (in fact, I ripped the Reply-To: line, since it is redundant. If the user wants one to redirect replies somewhere else, he can fill in the field himself) I also fixed the cancel feature so that an article apparently posted from ai.toronto.edu (we do hostname hiding) can be cancelled from any machine whithin the same domain. This is of course highly dependant on local policies, so a general fix may be hard to find. A final, unrelated bug is that 'rn' should not be checking out the .newsrc immediately after the newsetup creates the initial one. We only give initial users a tiny subset of the newsgroups (the local general interest ones) instead of a behemoth .newsrc. 'rn' would insist on checking out the .newsrc and proposing a seemingly (to the new user) random selection of recently created newsgroups... Jean-Francois Lamy lamy@ai.toronto.edu lamy@ai.toronto.cdn AI Group, Dept of Computer Science uunet!ai.toronto.edu!lamy University of Toronto lamy%ai.toronto.edu@relay.cs.net (arpa) Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4 lamy@ai.utoronto, lamy@utorgpu (bitnet)
glee@cognos.uucp (Godfrey Lee) (11/30/87)
In article <3920@pucc.Princeton.EDU> IRWIN@pucc.Princeton.EDU writes: >but it also generates a bad 'Reply-To' header (irwin@phoenix.UUCP). Look in common.h. There are two defines called MAILHEADER and NEWSHEADER. -- Godfrey Lee P.O. Box 9707 Cognos Incorporated 3755 Riverside Dr. VOICE: (613) 738-1440 FAX: (613) 738-0002 Ottawa, Ontario UUCP: decvax!utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!cognos!glee CANADA K1G 3Z4