Bug#2367: Pine supplies PATH line when posting news
Package: pine
Version: 3.91-4
When Pine is asked to post news it takes what it thinks is the
machine's domain name and puts it and the username in a Path header of
the message it sends to the NNTP server.
It should not do this; the Path line is a news-transport to
news-transport header and should not be provided by posting software.
An appropriate Path will be added by the NNTP server; adding a Path in
the way that Pine does may well cause bad propagation of the resulting
articles.
Pine's behaviour is at variance with standard practice on USENET.
I consider this a bug, and I'm reporting it separately so that it can
be discussed without confusion. I'd appreciate it if the package
maintainer would hold off closing this bug out of hand while the
readers of debian-devel establish a consensus on the desirability of
various behaviours. If it is decided that the behaviour should be
changed and the package maintainer is not able or willing to make the
necessary changes the report should be forwarded to the Pine
developers.
Ian.
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