Xref: utzoo news.software.b:5435 comp.mail.elm:2929
Path: utzoo!utstat!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!ira.uka.de!smurf!urlichs
From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: There is NO reason to reply via the Path: header
Message-ID: <1kt!e2.851@smurf.sub.org>
Date: 10 Aug 90 19:30:19 GMT
References: <1990Aug2.012444.22770@mlb.semi.harris.com> <1990Aug2.032455.9108@zoo.toronto.edu> <24@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
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In news.software.b, article <24@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>,
  lyndon@cs.athabascau.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes:
< 
< If you're capable of obtaining and installing [bc]news, you're capable
< of installing one of the many versions of smail. Do it.
< 
It would help if all the packages like rn, elm, whatever, would (in their
configuration questions) default to the assumption that there is an underlying
RFC822-compatible MTA, and if the documentation would stress the fact that
installing one of these is a better idea than depending on the old stuff.

Case in point: the new trn, whose installation script still defaults to NO for
the INTERNET option.

Changing these defaults would make installation at those sites a bit more
difficult, therefore giving people an incentive to inquire how to improve the
situation (as opposed to using Path: for replies, the mail user agent for
routing, and depending on everyone else to fix their addresses...)

Comments?
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