Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!rickert
From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: LET'S NAME THE GUILTY POSTING SOFTWARE!!!
Message-ID: <1991Jun22.215932.24871@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 22 Jun 91 21:59:32 GMT
References: <6106@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> <1991Jun21.162641.900@mp.cs.niu.edu> <28636AD9.5E00@tct.com>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
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In article <28636AD9.5E00@tct.com> chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
>According to rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert):
>>In practice there are many systems which do reply to the 'Path:'
>>
>>  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.

 I have no objections to that.  My only point was that mini-inews current
practice in generating Path: has undesirable side effects on the news
server.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
  DeKalb, IL 60115                                   +1-815-753-6940