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I have just installed C-news and nntp on a sparc 2 with SunOs 4.1.2.
When we post news items, the From: line is correct (eg.  rosi@george.ucnv.edu.au)  but the Sender: line which is used for mail replies, leaves out the hostname (eg. rosi@ucnv.edu.au).  Using email (not news) our return address is correctly generated.  Can anyone tell me what I have done wrong in the Cnews set up?

[I notice under Bnews, we have no Sender: address generated!?]

Also, while I have your attention, and since the documentation is so obscure, scattered and incomplete can you please advise:
1. What unpacks news items out of the in.coming area into the spool directories?- is it nntp file 'newsrun'?  - if so, what do the following errors mean?
      'c7decode:  Bad data'
      'stdin: not in compressed format'

2. How does Cnews expire work?  Is it like Bnews expire?

3. What's with rnews - is it just a link from inews?

I would appreciate email replies where possible as I sometimes miss news postings.  Thanks in advance for any time you may take in helping me out here.

rosi punton
sys prog
uni. college of northern victoria
bendigo, victoria, australia
rosi@redgum.ucnv.edu.au