The idea behind 'strippath' implementation?

[Bill Davidsen]

Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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?

Is there a good reason to change it? I'm sure there are old clients out 
there which still put a name there. I don't feel strongly about it, 
clearly...

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