Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mstar!mstar.morningstar.com!bob From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains Subject: Re: CS top-level domain and its impact on the UK? Message-ID: Date: 6 Aug 90 16:21:28 GMT References: <9008052136.AA05067@skinfaxe.diku.dk> Sender: usenet@MorningStar.COM (USENET Administrator) Reply-To: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) Distribution: inet Organization: Morning Star Technologies Lines: 28 In-Reply-To: thorinn@DIKU.DK's message of 5 Aug 90 21:36:12 GMT In article <9008052136.AA05067@skinfaxe.diku.dk> thorinn@DIKU.DK (Lars Henrik Mathiesen) writes: From: pcg@odin.UUCP (Piercarlo Grandi) You oughtn't put non-qualified local host names in the Path: line of articles; the mailing list gateways use them for From: lines. You're right, he oughtn't, but not for that reason. RFC1036 disparages the use of "Path:" contents for mailer replies, which is what "From:" is for. Any news-to-mail gateway that constructs a mail "From:" line from information contained in a a news "Path:" line is a bug - it should use the provided "From:" line. Similarly, any news user agent that constructs a mail reply's "To:" line based on a news "Path:" line is broken. Essentially, "Path:" contains no information of use to a mailer, and mailers are best advised to ignore it. For other less-rabid opinions, there's quite a hot discussion on just this point, currently raging along in news.software.b or news.admin or some more appropriate place. The reason he shouldn't put non-qualified, non-pathalias-registered host names in Path: is because the news flooding algorithm will cause neighbors to fail to pass the article to the machine that's already registered in the UUCP/Pathalias maps as using that name on its Path: lines. [ This has been a brief excursion into matters of UUCP naming. ] We now return you to your regularly-scheduled domain discussion...