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Bogus headers in net.micro.pc [message #80892] Tue, 04 June 2013 00:01
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Message-ID: <1766@sun.uucp>
Date: Tue, 30-Oct-84 17:49:59 EST
Article-I.D.: sun.1766
Posted: Tue Oct 30 17:49:59 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 1-Nov-84 02:42:52 EST
References: <11770@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Lines: 36
Xref: sun net.micro.pc:2506 net.news:2093

Can whoever is gatewaying Info-IBMPC into the Usenet fix up your headers?
The Subject and From lines should just contain the Subject and From of
the original message.  Why do you put bogus ones in the Usenet header and
put the real ones in the text?

Sample:
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Path: sun!qubix!ios!oliveb!hplabs!sri-unix!Info-IBMPC@USC-ISIB.ARPA
From: Info-IBMPC@USC-ISIB.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: [Joseph M. Newcomer : TEX]
Message-ID: <11770@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: 26 Oct 84 10:08:57 GMT

From:  Info-IBMPC Digest 

Date: Mon 22 Oct 84 12:06:57-EDT
From: Joseph M. Newcomer 
Subject: TEX
To: info-ibmpc@USC-ISIB.ARPA

After a disastrous weekend of trying to get even the simplest documents
...
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Better would have been:
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Path: sun!qubix!ios!oliveb!hplabs!sri-unix!NEWCOMER@TL-20B.ARPA
From: Joseph M. Newcomer 
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: TEX
Message-ID: <11770@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Mon 22 Oct 84 12:06:57-EDT   [suitably converted to GMT]

After a disastrous weekend of trying to get even the simplest documents
...
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