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From: zben@umcp-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.mail,net.news
Subject: Re: Fantastic Elastic Plastic USENET address
Message-ID: <3599@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 5-Nov-83 11:49:40 EST
Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.3599
Posted: Sat Nov  5 11:49:40 1983
Date-Received: Tue, 8-Nov-83 01:00:34 EST
Organization: Univ. of Maryland, Computer Science Dept.
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    I agree that everyone should use paths which are different from the
    paths that news took to get to them. When you use 'r' in readnews,
    you get a file whose first line you can edit to amend the header.

Here at UMCP-CS we have a truly wondrous program called 'WHERE-MAIL'.
You say:

    % where-mail podunk

and it tells you the path it thinks is best to get to podunk.  To forge
a return path, I call it sequentially backwards on the from address,
starting at the final host and working back through the chain, until a
host pops up defined (and usually with a shorter path).  I then catenate
the shorter path it printed with the unknown sites that were skipped.

We are connected to a lot of different nets, and I'm not sure how
transportable this system is.

I gave up on the readnews R command long ago -- there seem to be some
*REALLY* funny 'From:' lines out there...

Ben Cranston      ...seismo!umcp-cs!zben      zben@umd2.ARPA