Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!intercon!news From: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Who pays the bill? Message-ID: <26C03C57.1A38@intercon.com> Date: 8 Aug 90 16:22:47 GMT References: <26A738A8.725B@tct.uucp> <26B059CA.57CF@tct.uucp> <1990Jul28.220425.20038@kth.se> <4K:47TE@ggpc2.ferranti.com> , peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > I was noting that postmasters at > two separate locations (osu and uunet) were both showing with impeccable > logic that they should munge the headers in exactly the opposite way to > each other. There is a difference, though. Most of uunet's connections are to machines whose mailers only understand UUCP addresses. Most of osu's connections (if not all) are to machines whose mailers understand RFC 822 addresses. In their own contexts, each strategy makes sense, and serves to help mail get through. If you tell uunet "hey, we can grok RFC 822," they'll start rewriting things in pretty much the same way OSU does... The major difference is that uunet doesn't require you to run a modern mailer in order to be a customer :-). -- Amanda Walker InterCon Systems Corporation