On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, you wrote:
> Hm, but if NewsX simply duplicates INN's behaviour, it can't cure any problem
> due to misconfiguration of INN, can it? (I suppose that said misconfiguration
> of the user was that he *didn't* correctly enter the hostname of his
> provider's news server into newsfeeds, and that INN *therefore* sent back all
> articles.)
The point of the entire exercise is to detect such a misconfiguration
BEFORE any articles are allowed to enter the spool and thus be seen by
INN.
The intention was to abort all news fetching from a given host, with a
suitable error message, if it is discovered that the "Path" headers from
that host does not contain the host name (with alternatives) specified in
the configuration.
It may seem drastic, but so far I can't see it should do any harm. And
hopefully, it should prevent beginners from doing stupid mistakes.
Egil
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