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In article <32vm9s$h57@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, doc@uiuc.edu (Jim Marco) says:
>I have a user who has tried to post from the email side, and his posts
>did not show up on usenet...where
>else could the problem be?  Is there anything I should ask him to try
>to help figure out what the problem is?  Thanks.

This should probably be an FAQ, since it comes up so often. Most
mail software has a "deliver it if you possibly can" philosophy. This
means that if the headers are a little wierd, or the Message-ID does
not conform to the RFC, the message is delivered anyway. News, on
the other hand -- and INN in particular -- takes the opposite approach.
If a post is not completely correct, it is rejected. The reason is almost
always because it has a non-standard header.

To find out what the posts really look like you'll have to set your
subscription back to MAIL and then also set your subscription to
FULLHDR so you see exactly what the gateway sees. Then, when 
this person posts to the list, take a good look at their post. Look,
in particular, at the Date:, To:, From: and Message-ID: tags. Their
mailer may, for example, generate a Date: field that does not conform
to the RFC, or the address in the From: field may be incorrectly
formatted. When you find the bad header, let your subscriber know
so he can contact his mail vendor to get the problem fixed.

Jim McIntosh (jim@american.edu)
The American University
Washington DC 20016-8019 USA