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From: del@thrush.mlb.semi.harris.com (Don Lewis)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Who pays the bill?
Message-ID: <1990Aug1.233129.21833@mlb.semi.harris.com>
Date: 1 Aug 90 23:31:29 GMT
References: <1990Jul31.211125.11451@mlb.semi.harris.com> <818@toaster.SFSU.EDU> <1990Aug1.161201.19243@zoo.toronto.edu>
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In article <1990Aug1.161201.19243@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>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.

It won't work for any articles that have passed through here.  Both of
our news feeds put their uucp names in the Path: line and our current
mail configuration doesn't understand arbitrary uucp names since we are
currently Internet only.
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Don "Truck" Lewis                      Harris Semiconductor
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