Path: utzoo!utstat!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: stopping use of the Path header in replie Message-ID: <2382@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Date: 2 Aug 90 17:44:15 GMT References: <3275.26b54aab@mccall.com> <1990Jul31.211125.11451@mlb.semi.harris.com> <818@toaster.SFSU.EDU> <1990Aug1.201232.23136@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1990Aug1.230858.3264@iwarp.intel.com> <1990Aug2.134734.15570@talos.pm.com> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY Lines: 19 Randal Schwartz writes: > 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 you could just add a reply-to line to the header, if your news reader doesn't do that already. Since I often post from various machines but want mail on this one, I can always tell if someone has a brain dead mailer. That allows even the brain dead to reply, if you are more interested in getting information than stopping bad practives. I edit the headers strongly with the editor macro which sets my modes and things for news. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me