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From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: stopping use of the Path header in replie (was sRe: Who pays the bill?)
Message-ID: <1990Aug5.225321.12658@pegasus.com>
Date: 5 Aug 90 22:53:21 GMT
References: <1990Aug2.134734.15570@talos.pm.com> < <1990Aug4.214858.10483@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Organization: Pegasus,  Honolulu
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X-Local-Date: 5 Aug 90 15:53:21 PDT

>I once discovered somebody gatewaying news articles into an e-mail
>distribution list and rebuilding the `From:' lines from the Path header.
>When I complained to the postmaster there that he was throwing away our
>nice domain address and substituting an unreplyable path, he said he had
>to do that because most of the From and Reply-To headers were bogus because
>they just said user@host.uucp.  So, there are lots of things to fix to
>make replies work.

But user@host.uucp works in many, if not most cases.  We have all the
tools to fix things up (like maps, etc.) -- we just need to use them.


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Richard Foulk		richard@pegasus.com