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From: Makey@Logicon.COM (Jeff Makey)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Imminent death of UUCP Zone predicted
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Date: 20 Jul 90 23:39:35 GMT
References: <100@raysnec.UUCP> <269B82AE.415E@intercon.com> <707@logicon.com> <1990Jul16.200955.29906@chinet.chi.il.us> <712@logicon.com> <aq3svf.axd@wang.com>
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In article <aq3svf.axd@wang.com> fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald) writes:
>If valid RFC822 addresses weren't rewritten into ! addresses in the first
>place, this wouldn't be a problem.
 [...]
>And the fact remains that not all sites prefix the path with their
>nodename.

The one problem you fail to take into account is the sites (and there
are plenty of them) that rewrite

    From: user@fully.qualified.domain

into the completely wrong form of

    From: bozo-site!user@fully.qualified.domain

where "bozo-site" is the UUCP name of such a site.  I am not one of
these sites, but when I ship such mail out via UUCP with

    From: snoopy!fully.qualified.domain!user

I can sleep well knowing that I am immune from such lunacy.  While I
currently do this for all UUCP traffic, I am beginning to be convinced
that I should only do this if bozo-site is the next UUCP hop.

                           :: Jeff Makey

Department of Tautological Pleonasms and Superfluous Redundancies Department
    Disclaimer: All opinions are strictly those of the author.
    Internet: Makey@Logicon.COM    UUCP: {nosc,ucsd}!logicon.com!Makey