[news.admin] ucbvax bitnet gateway broken?

tgl@zog.cs.cmu.edu.UUCP (05/15/87)

The following article appeared in comp.sys.mac.digest, a moderated newsgroup
which is supposed to carry only digest postings from arpanet and delphi.
If the headers are not completely bogus, it appears that ucbvax's BITNET-to-
Usenet gateway code is broken.  Not only did it not mail the article to
the appropriate moderator, but it forged an "Approved:" line!
(Alternately, the original poster might have forged the Approved: line;
would it be reasonable for the gateway to strip that out?  Does regular
Usenet "inews" remove hand-written Approved: lines?)

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Relay-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site pt.cs.cmu.edu
Path: pt.cs.cmu.edu!rochester!seismo!husc6!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!sdcsvax!ucbvax!NUACC.BITNET!MBORSETT
From: MBORSETT@NUACC.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.digest
Subject: LaserWriter Plus clone MUCH better than original??
Message-ID: <8705142216.AA03474@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 14 May 87 21:46:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: ucb.Berk.8705142216.AA03474
Posted: Thu May 14 17:46:00 1987
Date-Received: 15 May 87 02:34:57 GMT
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Distribution: world
Organization: The ARPA Internet
Lines: 28
Approved: info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu

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Mike Borsetti

Bitnet:   mborsetti@nuacc.bitnet
MCI Mail: mborsetti
Telex:    6502526746 MCI UW
FidoNet:  115/729  (312-729-8768, member EchoMAC)
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I'm uncertain whether to flame the poster or ucbvax's news admin,
but SOMEBODY screwed up.

				tom lane
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