[899] in SIPB bug reports
/afs/athena/contrib/sipb/rtbin/inews (?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Feb 19 02:03:45 1990
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 90 02:03:05 -0500
From: David Krikorian <dkk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: dkk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
A user pointed out that posting news on dialup5 wasn't working
correctly. The trouble started about the same time that
/afs/athena/contrib/sipb/rtbin/inews was last modified (3 days ago).
Here are a pair of postings from dialup3 and dialup5. Dialup3 uses
the NFS filesystem, dialup5 uses the AFS one. Both are RTs. The
symptoms below match what the user described -- the munging of the
"From:" field on dialup5.
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Article 76 of athena.test:
Newsgroups: athena.test
Path: bloom-beacon!bloom-beacon!athena.mit.edu!daemon
From: daemon
Subject: The From: field will be munged
Message-ID: <1990Feb19.061609.16570@athena.mit.edu>
Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system)
Reply-To: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Distribution: athena
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 90 06:16:09 GMT
Lines: 4
This is merely a test, and not to be taken at all seriously -- not even
in the slightest.
Article 77 of athena.test:
Newsgroups: athena.test
Path: bloom-beacon!bloom-beacon!athena.mit.edu!daemon
From: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
Subject: The From: field should look normal
Message-ID: <1990Feb19.061838.16768@athena.mit.edu>
Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system)
Reply-To: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Distribution: athena
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 90 06:18:38 GMT
Lines: 4
This is merely a test, and not to be taken at all seriously -- not even
in the slightest.
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Both machines had the same /etc/passwd line for daemon. To further
complicate matters, I posted something from Tisiphone (an RT using the
AFS sipb filesystem), which did work. I don't know news well enough
to look any further.
