Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Wrong Path in articles under C News
Message-ID: <1991May15.224905.985@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Wed, 15 May 1991 22:49:05 GMT
References: <MIKE.91May15171725@apex.yorku.ca>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <MIKE.91May15171725@apex.yorku.ca> mike@apex.yorku.ca (Mike Marques) writes:
>... Things work just fine except articles posted locally have
>the local host twice in their Path: field:
>
>Path: newshub.ccs.yorku.ca!newshub.ccs.yorku.ca!mike

This probably means that whatever software is being used to do the posting
is supplying its own Path header, which is a stupid mistake but does happen.
The C News posting machinery is respecting the existing path and just adding
the local name on the front.

The fix is to fix the posting software.  This just might be NNTP's fault
if you are posting through it, but whatever you're using as reader/poster
is more likely to be at fault.

It's relatively harmless.
-- 
And the bean-counter replied,           | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
"beans are more important".             |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry
