epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott) (10/03/89)
In article <3477@midway.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) writes: >One good reason for doing it would be because your system manager is an >incompetent bozo who's set things up so the "From:" line is nonsense. > >There are lots of sites out there that have a ".edu.UUCP" suffix on this >line; replies to articles from them will invariably bounce unless you spot >it in time and edit the address. Places for news administrators to check for spurious .UUCPs: (B news) MYDOMAIN setting (rn source) common.h (3 of them) If you don't have source, you can redefine NEWSHEADER and CANCELHEADER in /usr/lib/news/rn/INIT using -E /usr/lib/news/rn/Pnews.header (near the end)