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From: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: ATT replies
Summary: Grrrrr
Keywords: cbnews
Message-ID: <1990Aug19.205508.16479@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
Date: 19 Aug 90 20:55:08 GMT
Reply-To: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher)
Distribution: na
Organization: NRK Clinic for habitual NetNews abusers
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Does anyone else out there have a hard time sending replies to att-ites?

Here's how it goes for me:

	1) Article is posted from "bell@cbnews.att.com (alex.g.bell)"
	2) I attempt to reply to that address
	3) My reply bounces, for various reasons, at cbnews.

All this comes about because, of course, Alex does not REALLY have an
account on cbnews, but instead on another att machine that lets cbnews
do all the postings.

Has anyone figured out how to include an offering to the gods within
cbnews's mailer so that replies really work? Or discovered a way to
find a posters' REAL address? (Note- I've had no hassles with the
people with real {non-cbnews} addresses) One thing that would cure the
problem is to get cbnews to include the poster's address as a
'Reply-To:' header.

I should note that when I have asked help from cbnews's postmaster, he
has sent my mail on. But ISTM that it is pretty stupid to have to annoy
him virtually every time.

Comments/suggestions/flames?


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