Xref: utzoo comp.mail.uucp:4886 news.software.b:5278 Path: utzoo!utstat!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!mlb.semi.harris.com!thrush.mlb.semi.harris.com!del From: del@thrush.mlb.semi.harris.com (Don Lewis) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,news.software.b Subject: Re: Who pays the bill? Message-ID: <1990Jul31.211125.11451@mlb.semi.harris.com> Date: 31 Jul 90 21:11:25 GMT References: <3270.26b4665b@mccall.com> <3275.26b54aab@mccall.com> Sender: news@mlb.semi.harris.com Organization: Harris Semiconductor, Melbourne FL Lines: 35 In article <3275.26b54aab@mccall.com> tp@mccall.com writes: >In article , lear@turbo.bio.net (Eliot) writes: >> I claim that I will be wrong fewer times than the users passing mail >> through me. In addition I'll be respecting the wishes of those who >> use the map data to control just how much volume will pass through >> their sites. >> >> Given the following path: >> >> bionet!uwm.edu!wuarchive!uunet!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!deimos.cis.ksu.edu!mccall!tp > >Are there still news systems that use the Path: line for replies? That is >the only way someone could generate the above garbage. My From: address is >tp@mccall.com, and any mail to that address will generate an optimal path >according to pathalias. Any news system that does that is broken (always >was). Lean on the sender to fix it. Few people actually generate paths by >hand all the way to the destination. Other than broken news systems, who's >paths are you trying to fix? When building rn, if you #define INTERNET, when replying to an article, rn uses %t for the To: address. If you do not #define INTERNET, rn uses %T for the To: address. Quoting from the man page: %t "To:" line derived from the "From:" and "Reply-To:" lines of the current article. This always returns an Internet format address. %T "To:" line derived from the "Path:" line of the current article to produce a uucp path. If something better was implemented for the non-Internet case, it might cut down on the number of monstrous paths seen in mail addresses. -- Don "Truck" Lewis Harris Semiconductor Internet: del@mlb.semi.harris.com PO Box 883 MS 62A-028 Phone: (407) 729-5205 Melbourne, FL 32901