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[ I am crossposting this widely, but I have set
a Followup-To: header to news.software.b.  Why?  Because
this effects many newsreaders. ]

In <KARTHY.93Jun16212732@dannug.dannug.dk> karthy@dannug.dk (Karsten Thygesen) writes:

>I have a problem with double entries in the Path line using Inn 1.4
>and gnus as poster.

This is a GNUS problem.

If you run INN *then if* you have this line in inn.conf:
pathhost:     WHAT_I_WANT_IN_MY_PATH

*and*

and these two lines in your config.data:
#### =()<INEWS_PATH             @<INEWS_PATH>@>()=
INEWS_PATH              DONT

*and*

recompile and restart everything

*then*

Now the only thing put in your path line should be
WHAT_I_WANT_IN_MY_PATH.  If this isn't true, blame the newsreader.

I newsreaders should NOT generate their own "Path:" line when sending
the post to inews OR the NNTP "post" command.  Let the server generate
it.  It will generate a correct one.  "Path:" is not a required header
to feed to either of those commands.  (it is required if you send
directly to rnews, but what newsreader sends directly to rnews ?)

Someone needs to fix xrn, GNUS, and all the other newsreaders
that do this.

Tom

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