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From: karl.kleinpaste@osc.edu
Subject: Re: What should go in the Path for nntp postings
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Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1991 15:00:51 GMT
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rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu writes:
   Perhaps one should go further.  How about the Path: ALWAYS pointing to a
   bit bucket, even when posted at a site with full news locally available.
   Then we get out of the state where some sites reply to 'From:' and some to
   'Path:'.  Is it time to force the issue?

The news/mail gateways running on tut.cis.ohio-state.edu have been
generating "tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unreplyable!garbage" in Path: for
mail->news postings for the past 6 months or so, including all
gnu.*.bug groups.  No negative side effects, as far as I've seen.
Anyone replying to Path: has been getting bounce-o-grams.

I just hope there's no site out there named "unreplyable." :-)

--karl