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From: laura@utcsstat.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: *uucp* addresses
Message-ID: <1450@utcsstat.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 19-Nov-83 04:50:36 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 19 04:50:36 1983
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Curtis (and everyone else that is sending mail)
the reason that the problem exists is that not everybody has the same
mailer. More explicitly -- NOT EVERYONE HAS SENDMAIL. And it is at
the discretion of the mailer that is rading the mail to decide where
it came from. Some mailers do not understand that it has been optimised,
and go for the old version. Other mailers believe explicity any line
beginning "From:" or "FROM:" -- not good because other mailers
generate thngs like "FROM: the tty of Geoffrey S. Goodfellow" and
stuff them into the mail header. It makes it hard to get from here to
there!

There are also at least 5 sites out there which I have tracked down who
are optimising badly. they optimise:

good_site!still_good!THEM!useless!more_useless!real_destination!user

into a From line that reads:

THEM!good_site!still_good!sender

Notice that good_site and still_good, which should have been reversed,
aren't. This is not cool when THEM doe snot talk to good_site.

I have sent mail to the administrators involved.

laura creighton	(see what you discover when people send you hate mail?)
utzoo!utcsstat!laura