Bogus .UUCP addresses under SCO (TRN TRN TRN !!!)

[Bill England]

In article <1990Oct1.011018.10124 at mthvax.cs.miami.edu> wb8foz at mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher) writes:
[...]
>1) Why would SCO ship brain_damaged binaries such as this?
>
   The .uucp suffix is a Configuration feature of rn.  It is HARD 
   wired and there is nothing you can do about it accept recompile
   rn.  SCO is not likely to redesign the 'free' software.

   The Reply-To: line is now obsolete anyway!  Look at the header
   and see how redundant a Reply-To: line would be.  The solution is
   to NOT include a Reply_To: line in your mail header. ( Removing
   this also  requires that you have the rn source and recompile. )
>
>2) I thought it was 'rn' that had the .UUCP hardcode bug. Does bnews 
>also suffer?
>
	bnews suffers here all the time.  Esspecially when I strap it to
	the rack and lash  it with the bull wip.  ;-)

	( No the .uucp is an rn problem only. )
>
>3) Is it any wonder so many sites have this flaw (I see them daily) if
>this is the case? [danger: rhetorical question]
>
>4) How would this user, *with the least effort* get his own version of
>bnews compiled? (i.e. did SCO do weird things to news to make it work
>on their box?)

   I think that it compiles almost straight out of the box.  Why don't
   you try C_news instead. if you are going to get the sources you 
   might as well stay one step ahead of all the other SCO installations.

   __ALSO__

1) GET trn.  It fixes the rn problem mentioned and you have the *latest*
   source for rn AND trn. (trn is 'threaded read news' and is a replacment 
   for rn that includes a thread database facility similar to nn.  Sharp!)

2) NOTICE, that when you save mail in the rn SCO provides it does not put
   in the string of ^A's that are required for Mmdf mail to work?

   The following mbox.saver file comes with trn and should fix the
   mail save problem in rn as well.

-----/usr/lib/mail/trn/mbox.saver--------
: use /bin/sh
# $Header: mbox.saver.SH,v 4.3.3.1 90/08/20 16:30:28 davison Trn $
# 
# $Log:	mbox.saver.SH,v $
# Revision 4.3.3.1  90/08/20  16:30:28  davison
# Added support for MMDF format mailboxes.
# 
# Revision 4.3.2.2  90/03/17  20:44:54  sob
# Modify Article header to place the colon after Article.
# 
# Revision 4.3.2.1  89/11/28  00:05:47  sob
# Branch for RN/RRN combo patches
# 
# Revision 4.3.1.2  85/05/20  15:55:37  lwall
# Turned makedir.SH into $5.
# 
# Revision 4.3.1.1  85/05/10  11:35:30  lwall
# Branch for patches.
# 
# Revision 4.3  85/05/01  11:42:51  lwall
# Baseline for release with 4.3bsd.
# 
# 
#	Arguments:
#	1 Full name of article (%A)
#	2 Public news spool directory (%P)
#	3 Directory of current newsgroup (%c)
#	4 Article number (%a)
#	5 Where in article to start (%B)
#	6 Newsgroup name (%C)
#	7 Save destination (%b)
#	8 First line of message, normally From...
#
export PATH || (echo "OOPS, this isn't sh.  Desperation time.  I will feed myself to sh."; sh $0; kill $$)

( /bin/echo ""
  if /bin/test "$5" = 0 -a ! "$4" = 0 ; then
    /bin/echo "Article: $4 of $6"
  fi
  /bin/tail +$5c $1
  /bin/echo ""
  /bin/echo ""
  /bin/echo "" ) >> $7
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