Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site hou3c.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!Margolin@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA From: Margolin@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA (Barry Margolin) Newsgroups: net.mail.headers Subject: Re: Malformed headers Message-ID: <840501073922.688491@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA> Date: Tue, 1-May-84 03:39:00 EDT Article-I.D.: hou3c.528 Posted: Tue May 1 03:39:00 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 2-May-84 05:38:57 EDT Sender: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist) Lines: 8 To: header-people@MIT-MC.ARPA Of course, the real problem with Stephen Woods' suggestion is that it assumes that a Usenet site can figure out how to get the mail to the UUCP-Arpa gateway without requiring the user to specify the route explicitly. If they had this capability then it would only be a small step to not requiring explicit paths for anything, and they could then use domain addressing, and there would be no problem of ambiguous syntax to solve. barmar