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Article #7931Re: Obnoxious lisp code
From: Matthew P Wiener
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 1988 03:32
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 1988 03:32
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In article <1487@nmtsun.nmt.edu>, dieter (The Demented Teddy Bear) writes: >BTW, the generation of the "From:" field for follow-ups produces bogons. >Specifically, if you post via inews, you'll get "From: dieter@titan.nmt.edu", >which inews looks at and says, "Aha! He's got a partial path, so we'll >just tack on the local path, producing 'Path: nmtsun!dieter@titan.nmt.edu." Ah, that's what causes that! I'd say that's a bug in inews... The correct fix is to use the reply-path variable. If nil inews/nntp will set the path, but if it's a string, this will be the path used. ucbvax!garnet!weemba Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720 "Nil sounds like a lot of kopins! I never got paid nil before!" --Groo
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!apple!bionet!agate!garnet!weemba From: weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Matthew P Wiener) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: Obnoxious lisp code Message-ID: <17291@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 21 Nov 88 03:32:21 GMT References: <KARL.88Nov19003017@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu> <17246@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <1487@nmtsun.nmt.edu> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Matthew P Wiener) Organization: Brahms Gang Posting Central Lines: 13 In-reply-to: dieter (The Demented Teddy Bear)