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From: karl_kleinpaste@cis.ohio-state.edu
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: is uunet breaking your headers?
Message-ID: <KARL.90Jun5154535@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 5 Jun 90 19:45:35 GMT
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greyham@hades.OZ writes:
   If everyone left From: alone completely, the sites that would be
   affected would be the sites that generate a bad From: line, and it
   would give them some encouragement to fix the thing.

Just for the sake of an extra giggle (if you knew what my day had been
like so far today, you'd appreciate that need in me), two points:

<1> Your host doesn't exist:

| [137] [3:35pm] giza:/n/giza/0/karl> host -a hades.OZ.
| Host not found.

Oh, you meant hades.oz.au?  OH!  That's _different_...too bad your
From: line is bogus...but I suppose no one should ever rewrite it to a
canonical form.

<2> _Trust_me_, postmasters get Really Well Encouraged to fix their
mailers when one of my users gets mail from such a place, complains to
me about why they can't reply, and I find out who the
originating/offending site is, especially when I cite chapter and
verse of 822 at the offending postmaster.

--karl