Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Who pays the bill? Message-ID: <1990Aug1.161201.19243@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <3275.26b54aab@mccall.com> <1990Jul31.211125.11451@mlb.semi.harris.com> <818@toaster.SFSU.EDU> Date: Wed, 1 Aug 90 16:12:01 GMT In article <818@toaster.SFSU.EDU> eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes: >... Path: lines DO NOT WORK FOR REPLY. >Maybe for intra-Eunet traffic, but not in general. It doesn't >make sense in North America... On the contrary, often it does. Not if an alternative is available, of course, but the odds are still better than even that a Path line *will* work as a reply address. Yes, in North America. I speak as someone whose mailer didn't understand @ addresses until quite recently. -- The 486 is to a modern CPU as a Jules | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology Verne reprint is to a modern SF novel. | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry