Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!samsung!olivea!uunet!pdn!tscs!tct!chip From: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: LET'S NAME THE GUILTY POSTING SOFTWARE!!! Message-ID: <28636AD9.5E00@tct.com> Date: 22 Jun 91 15:20:57 GMT References: <1991Jun20.145913.28280@mp.cs.niu.edu> <6106@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> <1991Jun21.162641.900@mp.cs.niu.edu> Organization: TC Telemanagement, Clearwater, FL Lines: 28 According to rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert): >In practice there are many systems which do reply to the 'Path:' >header. Even the news2mail program in the newsgate package posted a >few months ago uses the 'Path:' to generate the email 'From:' ... Then that program is broken. The Path: is strictly, 100% pure Usenet transport information. It has zero relevance to E-Mail, except by coincidence. To use it for any purpose relevant to E-Mail is a mistake. This fact is obvious when you consider E-Mail to news gateways. If the E-Mail return path were instituted as the Path: of the article, then the article would not be forwarded to those sites mentioned in that return path. The GNU newsgroups had this problem until recently, but now they work correctly. > 4. Some poor user on the news server host, whose login id happens to be > the same as that of the post on my site, may finish up being the > unintended victim of a flame fest intended for the poster at my site. In that case, the "user" part of the Path: should be "unrepliable" or some other such string, not a real user name. -- Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT , "You can call Usenet a democracy if you want to. You can call it a totalitarian dictatorship run by space aliens and the ghost of Elvis. It doesn't matter either way." -- Dave Mack