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From: wollman@kira.UVM.EDU (Garrett Wollman)
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
Subject: Mail captions
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Date: 22 Feb 91 14:18:43 GMT
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I have noticed that, very often, the host listed as the user's in mail
captions has been pulled out of a hat from somewhere and doesn't really
reflect reality.

So, here are a few IWBNIs for everyone to comment on:

	There is a lot of mail which still comes in with the mutant form
"foo!bar!baz@somehost".  This should be recognized and dealt with
properly, when possible.  For example:

From: cbmvax!snark.thyrsus.com!eric@uunet.UU.NET (Eric S. Raymond)

should be captioned as Eric S. Raymond@snark.thyrsus.com, and not as
Eric S. Raymond@uunet.UU.NET (the current behavior).  Similarly,

From: Bob Rahe <CES00661%UDELVM@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>

should be captioned as (suggested syntax) Bob Rahe@CES00661.???.  While
this is indeed ugly, it would be helpful for sites that live in three
worlds such as ours.  Not to mention that many of these kinds of
addresses show up in mailing lists, which AMS generally excels at.

-GAWollman

PS:  How about an option to add the "--\n" before pasting the signature
on?  And maybe four different signature files (local and non-local ATK
and non-ATK)?

-- (manually typed)
Garrett A. Wollman - wollman@sadye.uvm.edu

Disclaimer:  I'm not even sure this represents *my* opinion, never
mind UVM's, EMBA's, EMBA-CF's, or indeed anyone else's.


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