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From: joel@gould9
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Subject: Re: Mail over news links.
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Date: Sat, 26-Apr-86 19:15:00 EDT
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Posted: Sat Apr 26 19:15:00 1986
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In article <6613@utzoo.UUCP>, henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
> > What existing Usenet standards are your referring to, John?
> > The ones that I am aware of support domain addressing and discourage the
> > use of the Path: line for return addresses. 
> 
> The key word is "discourage", as opposed to "forbid".  The problem is that
> the documented standards reflect a hope as to how the world will be one
> day, not the facts of how it is today.

last time I checked, 2.10.3 alpha (at least with the toggle I have set)
generates replies from the "Path" header.  I would not be suprised to
learn that 2.10.1 and 2.10.2 do the same.

I agree with Henry.  Future hopes are nice, but this is reality for now.
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