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Subject: Re: The most expensive bug in the history of Usenet?
Message-ID: <1447@milano.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 13-May-86 11:41:39 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 13 11:41:39 1986
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Summary: site!user@site might be legit at some sites

In article <221@epimass.UUCP>, jbuck@epimass.UUCP (Joe Buck) writes:
> [...] it seems that site 'hpitg' shipped everything in its spool back out to
> the net [...].  You can recognize these articles on your machine by
> their "Path:" headers, which have the form
> 
>    Path: ...!hpitg!site!user@site
> 
> Normally, Path headers have no @'s in them, and "site" can be
> any site on the net.

This is not strictly true, expecially for sites like ours that talk to both
UUCP and ARPA.  All Usenet originated mail (and much news) appears here as
	Path: ...!site!user@im4u.uucp

(im4u is a UT machine which generously feeds us UUCP news and mail (bless'em!))

In addition, when vnews shows news articles here, it often shows
	From: user@site.uucp
(thus making the `r' function useless).

Anyway, the point is that the simple presence of the @ may not be a good
indicator and Joe's advice may mislead some people.

-- 
Alan Wexelblat
ARPA: WEX@MCC.ARPA
UUCP: {ihnp4, seismo, harvard, gatech, pyramid}!ut-sally!im4u!milano!wex

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