From: utzoo!henry
Newsgroups: hacknews
Title: PATH in news 
Article-I.D.: utzoo.2093
Posted: Sat May 29 22:22:17 1982
Received: Sat May 29 22:22:17 1982

Modified /bin/news not to reset PATH (and to invoke readnews as /bin/readnews).
The explicit pathname is sort of annoying, but shell escapes make resetting
PATH a nuisance in this case.  Theoretically it should be possible to reset
PATH but not export it, which would dictate the search path for finding
readnews but not mess up shell escapes.  This did not work, I know not why.