Bug in vnews

[William J. Laubenheimer]

The "r" (= reply) command in the version of vnews currently installed
at Berkeley seems to assume a greater degree of intelligence in the
mail system than actually exists. When replying to a path

sitea!siteb!...!sitez!foo!bar

it puts in the "To:" field of the reply the contents of the "From:"
field of the message being replied to, which is typically "bar at foo".
If we don't talk to foo, the local mailer bounces it back, I have to
go track down the message I was replying to, and then compose a reply
path to get to foo. This shouldn't be necessary. Has anybody fixed
this yet? Or am I just overlooking something?

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