Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site uwvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!ucbvax!ucdavis!lll-crg!gymble!umcp-cs!seismo!uwvax!dave From: dave@uwvax.UUCP (Dave Cohrs) Newsgroups: net.mail Subject: Re: What's with the colons ... and other imponderables Message-ID: <308@uwvax.UUCP> Date: Sat, 14-Sep-85 15:47:34 EDT Article-I.D.: uwvax.308 Posted: Sat Sep 14 15:47:34 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 17-Sep-85 05:30:39 EDT References: <10263@ucbvax.ARPA> <263@mot.UUCP> Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 24 > i recently received a msg from ..!seismo!decuac!decuac.UUCP!user > and also ..!tove.ARPA!user instead of ..!user@tove.ARPA > the former creations are unusable for returning mail. Personally, I don't see why this affects your return mail. If decuac knows how to handle the address 'decuac!decuac.UUCP!user' and if whichever site (seismo probably) that generated the '...!tove.ARPA!user' can understand it (seismo can, I know), it shouldn't affect your return mail UNLESS your mailer trys to be "smart" (read dumb) and not use the route provided to it. Mailers should *not* take addresses and chop them up. What I mean is, if you get mail from ...!seismo!decuac!decuac.UUCP!user you shouldn't change this into decuac.UUCP!user and try to optimize the routing. If you do this, don't complain about the hostname. Your site wasn't meant to understand it, decuac was. If your mailer insists on editing routing info, then you should add the code to understand all possible things people can and will do to their addresses. -- Dave Cohrs (608) 262-1204 ...!{harvard,ihnp4,seismo,topaz}!uwvax!dave dave@wisc-romano.arpa Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com