Path: utzoo!utstat!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!ogicse!iwarp.intel.com!news From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Who pays the bill? Message-ID: <1990Aug1.230858.3264@iwarp.intel.com> Date: 1 Aug 90 23:08:58 GMT References: <3275.26b54aab@mccall.com> <1990Jul31.211125.11451@mlb.semi.harris.com> <818@toaster.SFSU.EDU> <1990Aug1.201232.23136@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Sender: news@iwarp.intel.com Reply-To: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) Organization: Stonehenge; netaccess via Intel, Beaverton, Oregon, USA Lines: 31 In-Reply-To: mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills) In article <1990Aug1.201232.23136@ccu.umanitoba.ca>, mills@ccu (Gary Mills) writes: | One way to fix this would be to put a bogus user name as the last | component of the Path: for newly posted articles. Come to think of | it, articles posted here via nntp all have `news' as the user name! | That's not much use for replies. Yeah, but it still gets used. We post only about 5 articles/day out of this site (and 4 of them are mine! :-). Mail to "news" at this site goes to me. And yet, with even that small volume, I've had my share of replies to "news", even though the "From" and the "Reply-to" both say the real name of the user. (They *must* be using the Sender field, cuz I don't think the Path even has news...) No, I like the idea that someone said earlier... if you don't want the Path to be used, put BOGUS!yourhost! in the Path instead of just "yourhost!". Pretty soon, nobody will be using those things "cuz they always bounce". Or better yet, if I remember correctly, doesn't the RFC allow *any* separator character? So you could put "yourhost*" in the path or even "yourhost!!", and the chances of that getting kicked back one or two hops after the initial sender (because of rabid rerouters :-) are much higher). Or am I making any sense? Really, what's it gonna take to get people to stop using the Path? Just another news admin, -- /=Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 ==========\ | on contract to Intel's iWarp project, Beaverton, Oregon, USA, Sol III | | merlyn@iwarp.intel.com ...!any-MX-mailer-like-uunet!iwarp.intel.com!merlyn | \=Cute Quote: "Welcome to Portland, Oregon, home of the California Raisins!"=/