Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site rlgvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!wivax!linus!allegra!eagle!harpo!seismo!rlgvax!ra From: ra@rlgvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.news.b Subject: 2.10 fix for lost full names Message-ID: <552@rlgvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 1-Jun-83 18:37:22 EDT Article-I.D.: rlgvax.552 Posted: Wed Jun 1 18:37:22 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Jun-83 08:17:33 EDT Organization: RLG Corp., Reston, VA Lines: 21 If you installed the changes to header.c for 2.10 that Mark Horton mailed out, please note that the line: if (index(ptr, '@@') && !index(ptr, '!') && !seenrelay) should really be: if (index(ptr, '@@') && !index(ptr, '!') && seenrelay) If the '!' is present, the "From: " line is not used and a "fake" From: line is guessed at from the "Path:" line. The symptoms are that in readnews you will see something like: Path: ..rlgvax!ra instead of Path: ..rlgvax!ra (Rick Adams @ RLG Corp., Reston, VA) Also, when the article is passed on to the neighboring sites, the full name will be stripped off. Rick Adams RLG Corp. {seismo,allegra,mcnc}!rlgvax!ra