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   Date: 16 Nov 88 14:32:45 GMT
   From: flab!fgw!uunet!triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu!karl  (Karl Kleinpaste)
   Organization: OSU

   First, in the Path: header, We Believe In Domains, and we like all
   host references to show up with fully-qualified domain names.

   Actually, I would argue that GNUS shouldn't be messing with Path: at
   all, since Path: is correctly created by whichever version of inews is
   in use.  A similar thought applies to Message-Id; why does GNUS
   bother, when inews builds a correct Message-Id?

RFC977 said:

** If posting is permitted, the article should be presented in the
** format specified by RFC850, and should include all required header
** lines.

RFC1036 (which obsoletes RFC850) said:

**                     The required header lines are "From", "Date",
** "Newsgroups", "Subject", "Message-ID", and "Path".

That's why GNUS does it by itself.

   Second, since inews (both NNTP and local, direct versions) include
   .signature files, it seems inappropriate for GNUS to include them as
   well, since it will cause doubled signature inclusions.
   Per-distribution .signatures might be nice, but they rather conflict
   with normal inews activities.

An NNTP inews appends .signature unconditionally. That's why you get
confused. At least, I have no problems with posting with POST command
of NNTP and real local inews.

Do I have to introduce new variable, gnus-append-signature-p or
something like that?

Masanobu UMEDA
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