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From: lyndon@cs.athabascau.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: There is NO reason to reply via the Path: header
Summary: News isn't broken - fix your MTA!
Message-ID: <24@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
Date: 9 Aug 90 22:50:31 GMT
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henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:

>I would be interested to hear exactly what you think they could do, and
>so would most of the sites in question.

They could leave the issue of routing mail to the MTA, where it should
be in the first place. It's not *that* hard to install an MTA that knows
to punt unresolved addresses to a "smart" host. That allows you to
"#define INTERNET" or perform whatever other magic incantations are
necessary to eradicate the unnecessary use of the Path: header in
generating email reply addresses.

If you're capable of obtaining and installing [bc]news, you're capable
of installing one of the many versions of smail. Do it.

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     Lyndon Nerenberg  VE6BBM / Computing Services / Athabasca University
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