pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) (09/28/90)
This message was posted with Pnews. As I look at the screen, I see that the "From:" line has my domain address and the "Sender:" line is empty. But when you read it, the "Sender:" line will say Sender: pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) I can't find anything on my machine that has "mccc.uucp" in it, but obviously I'm not looking in the right place(s). Can anyone tell me where to look? Thanks, Pete -- Prof. Peter J. Holsberg Mercer County Community College Voice: 609-586-4800 Engineering Technology, Computers and Math UUCP:...!princeton!mccc!pjh 1200 Old Trenton Road, Trenton, NJ 08690 Internet: pjh@mccc.edu Trenton Computer Festival -- 4/20-21/91
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (09/30/90)
In article <1990Sep27.211815.16843@mccc.uucp> pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) writes: >This message was posted with Pnews. As I look at the screen, I see that >the "From:" line has my domain address and the "Sender:" line is empty. >But when you read it, the "Sender:" line will say > Sender: pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) > >I can't find anything on my machine that has "mccc.uucp" in it, but >obviously I'm not looking in the right place(s). Can anyone tell me >where to look? It's a combination of things inside inews. An empty header line is, in general, a violation of RFC1036; it may or may not be legal mail, but it is not legal news. So inews is filling it in for you. -- Imagine life with OS/360 the standard | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology operating system. Now think about X. | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) (10/01/90)
In article <1990Sep29.221734.4086@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: =In article <1990Sep27.211815.16843@mccc.uucp> pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) writes: =>This message was posted with Pnews. As I look at the screen, I see that =>the "From:" line has my domain address and the "Sender:" line is empty. =>But when you read it, the "Sender:" line will say => Sender: pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) => =>I can't find anything on my machine that has "mccc.uucp" in it, but =>obviously I'm not looking in the right place(s). Can anyone tell me =>where to look? = =It's a combination of things inside inews. An empty header line is, in =general, a violation of RFC1036; it may or may not be legal mail, but it =is not legal news. So inews is filling it in for you. So part of the problem is the Cnews' Pnews not filling in the "Sender:" line and the other is the Cnews inews assuming we're ".uucp." Now, as I don't see other people with this problem, they must have modified Pnews and inews??? Or did you fix it in a patch that I have yet to apply? Pete -- Prof. Peter J. Holsberg Mercer County Community College Voice: 609-586-4800 Engineering Technology, Computers and Math UUCP:...!princeton!mccc!pjh 1200 Old Trenton Road, Trenton, NJ 08690 Internet: pjh@mccc.edu Trenton Computer Festival -- 4/20-21/91
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (10/01/90)
In article <1990Sep30.230320.970@mccc.uucp> pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) writes: >=>But when you read it, the "Sender:" line will say >=> Sender: pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) >= >=It's a combination of things inside inews. An empty header line is, in >=general, a violation of RFC1036; it may or may not be legal mail, but it >=is not legal news. So inews is filling it in for you. > >So part of the problem is the Cnews' Pnews not filling in the "Sender:" >line and the other is the Cnews inews assuming we're ".uucp." Now, as I >don't see other people with this problem, they must have modified Pnews >and inews??? Or did you fix it in a patch that I have yet to apply? Pnews is part of rn (I think), and does not come with C News. If it is feeding empty header lines into inews, that is a bug. I would hope that people experiencing this have fixed Pnews. -- Imagine life with OS/360 the standard | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology operating system. Now think about X. | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) (10/03/90)
In article <1990Oct1.151249.16328@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: =In article <1990Sep30.230320.970@mccc.uucp> pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) writes: =>So part of the problem is the Cnews' Pnews not filling in the "Sender:" =>line and the other is the Cnews inews assuming we're ".uucp." Now, as I =>don't see other people with this problem, they must have modified Pnews =>and inews??? Or did you fix it in a patch that I have yet to apply? = =Pnews is part of rn (I think), and does not come with C News. If it is =feeding empty header lines into inews, that is a bug. I would hope that =people experiencing this have fixed Pnews. Oops! Sorry. Well, Pnews ain't fixed yet. Buy why aren't others having the same problem. Must be something I'm doing during Configure??? Pete -- Prof. Peter J. Holsberg Mercer County Community College Voice: 609-586-4800 Engineering Technology, Computers and Math UUCP:...!princeton!mccc!pjh 1200 Old Trenton Road, Trenton, NJ 08690 Internet: pjh@mccc.edu Trenton Computer Festival -- 4/20-21/91
tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) (10/11/90)
In article <1990Oct2.185123.8683@mccc.uucp> pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) writes: >In article <1990Oct1.151249.16328@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: >=Pnews is part of rn (I think), and does not come with C News. If it is >=feeding empty header lines into inews, that is a bug. I would hope that >=people experiencing this have fixed Pnews. > >Oops! Sorry. Well, Pnews ain't fixed yet. Buy why aren't others >having the same problem. Must be something I'm doing during Configure??? Apparently nobody cared about empty news header lines until C News came along, so Pnews was never fixed. Another testimony to the joys of reinvention! Anyway, I have the following in my Pnews: . . . if $grep -v '^[A-Z][A-Za-z\-]*: *$' $tmpart | $inews -h ; then . . . This strips the offending headers. Something like this should go into the next releases of 'rn' and B News, since we musn't ask C News to be more tolerant of the messy ol' real world. -- There's nothing wrong with Southern California that a ~~ Tom Neff rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. - Ross MacDonald ~~ tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM