Anpois.500
net.news
utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!mhtsa!harpo!npois!jak
Tue Mar 16 22:14:48 1982
re: junk mail from netnews
i too have had the problem Warren describes.
it comes from the receiving system; not the sending system unfortunately.
most systems, in changing uuxqt to allow rnews just stick rnews in the uuxqt
table without really looking at it.
if rnews fails, uuxqt inserts a line like "mail failed, letter returned to
sender" and sends it back.
in fact there is no letter, it was a netnews article.
there is a two line fix to uuxqt.c that solves this but
EVERYONE your system sends to must install it.
Most haven't because THEY dont see the annoying error mail messages, you do.
if a system disallows a particular news group, ALL the news for that group
is sent back as "failed mail"
My /usr/mail files were getting filled with this junk until I convinced
my netnews neigbors to install this fix.
here's the uuxqt fix for 3.0 at least if anyone wants it.
Good luck Warren!
---- uuxqt.c ----
if (strcmp(xcmd, "rmail") != SAME
&& strcmp(xcmd, "mail") != SAME
&& strcmp(xcmd, "rnews") != SAME) /*JAK 11-2-81*/
notify(user, Rmtname, cmd, retstat);
else if (ret != 0 /*JAK 01-17-82 */
&& (strcmp(xcmd, "rmail") == SAME /*JAK 01-17-82 */
|| strcmp(xcmd, "mail") == SAME)) { /*JAK 01-17-82 */
/* mail failed - return letter to sender */
retosndr(user, Rmtname, fin);
------
The lines inserted in January prevent return of anything except actual mail.
Jim Kutsch (npois!jak)
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