Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!news.cs.indiana.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!mp.cs.niu.edu!rickert From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Which headers may Sendmail re-write? Message-ID: <1990Dec13.131236.25304@mp.cs.niu.edu> Date: 13 Dec 90 13:12:36 GMT References: <27640C8A.1A46@tct.uucp> <1990Dec11.130432.27684@mp.cs.niu.edu> <2766B2E7.276@tct.uucp> Organization: Northern Illinois University Lines: 34 In article <2766B2E7.276@tct.uucp> chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes: > >1. A message destined for delivery in *your* domain is fair game > for anything you may want to do, up to and including translating > the entire message, header and all, into Swahili. > >2. A message passing through your domain on its way to my domain > should be left alone, without ANY modifications to the message > AT ALL except for the envelope. > >No site causes problems for its own users by following these rules. >No site causes problems for other sites by following these rules. >So why shouldn't we all adopt these rules right now? I'm listening... Sure. And when I relay Internet mail to 'uucpnode', and a user on 'uucpnode' does a R(eply), my machine gets to relay a lot of the uucpnode's local mail back to it, since that node doesn't understand the form of address on the header so sends it to its forwarding relay for interpretation. If I am going to follow this procedure I had better start charging real money for relay services. I will probably pick up quite a bit of cash just from this stupid 'local relaying'. But, come to think of it, as the money rolls in I should save it to pay for the lawyers. Some day the uucpsite admin is going to complain that with this improved service (of not munging headers) that I am charging him for, something funny is happening - he is not getting many replies to mail. Probably because all of those Internet sites having difficulty replying to 'uucpsite!user'. -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115. +1-815-753-6940