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In article <mib.819004953@deakin.edu.au>,
	mib@deakin.edu.au (Mike Battersby) writes:

>Well, that's not *exactly* what I meant.  I suspect that what happens is
>that suck is just grabbing down articles and then passing them on to rnews
>(or equivalent), which then decodes the headers on them to figure out what
>to do with them from there.  When INN gets passed the articles with Xref
>headers in them, it refuses to process them because you can't give it an
>Xref header.

Hmm, a bit of detective work and this is exactly what is happening.

>>None of my INN configuration files present an XRef: header anywhere, except

>You can set it in the overview.fmt (or whatever it's called) file.  I think
>it's probably mentioned in the overchan manpage.
I had a look here - no it's not:  It was before and I had removed it.

>>I'm using Knews to post, and it has a "Process XRefs" feature, but I am 
>>neither sure what it does nor aware if it is the problem or not.
It's not KNEWS...

>Suck shouldn't be leaving in the Xref headers when it sends articles to
>INN.
That is what it's doing!

>>I appreciate the workaround, understanding it is a hack, but really need 
>>more information!
OK - here was my final solution:

In the SUCK suite of scripts is a program called `put.news`.
It strips the header `NNTP-Posting-Host` from the news item headers.
I just added the hack for it to also remove `Xref:` headers in here as well.

Cross referenced posting now works.  
I think I will mail the SUCK developer and see if he was aware of this 
problem.

Perhaps there are others like me who get the same error but were not aware...

>UTSL?
umm - pardon my ignorance, but what does this mean? :/

>p.s. As an example, a transcript of trying to send an article to our
>     newsserver with an Xref header in it.

Thanks for the help!!

Rachel
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