The idea behind 'strippath' implementation?

[Russ Allbery]

Christoph Biedl <cbiedl at gmx.de> writes:

> To me, the readers.conf manpage about strippath reads as 'If enabled,
> any client preloaded path will be stripped'. However, the sources (INN
> 2.4.1) in nnrpd/post.c show that the last element in a preloaded path is
> carefully preserved and left in the posting before prepending
> PATHMASTER.

It's because the last element of the path used to be the username, rather
than a host name.

> What's the idea behind it? May I ask to sync manpage and code in one of
> either ways e.g. a clarification in the description of that option?

I don't object to stripping the entire path.  Does anyone feel that this
last element should be kept?

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