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From: del@thrush.mlb.semi.harris.com (Don Lewis)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: stopping use of the Path header in replie
Message-ID: <1990Aug3.011037.4579@mlb.semi.harris.com>
Date: 3 Aug 90 01:10:37 GMT
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In article <2382@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) writes:
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>Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
>Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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>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.

If you compile rn without the INTERNET option, it will always use the
Path: to reply to.  It won't use Reply-To:.  How many uucp-only sites
are going to use the INTERNET option?
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Don "Truck" Lewis                      Harris Semiconductor
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