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From: john@xanth.UUCP (John Owens)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Sending Email to People who post to the USENET
Message-ID: <686@xanth.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Mar-87 13:58:00 EST
Article-I.D.: xanth.686
Posted: Mon Mar  9 13:58:00 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 10-Mar-87 20:09:11 EST
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Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va.
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> 	"NEWS LINKS DO NOT IMPLY MAIL LINKS"
> 
> i have to laugh every time someone sends mail over a news link that has
> no corresponding mail link and the bounce winds up in my mailbox
> because someone mangled the return address.  i used to be concerned,
> but now it's just silliness.
> 
> /jordan

I agree completely from a theoretical point of view, but from a
practical point of view, when I see mail from a uucp site that's not
in the uucp maps, I can almost always find how to get to them by
looking on the Path: line - usually the next-to-last site will be in
the maps.  At worst, I have to go known-site!next-site!final-site!user.

Also, whenever I set up a non-uucp news link, I try to make sure that
mail returned via the Path: line will work somehow.  This isn't always
possible, but when it is, it allows not-so-smart sites to still get
replies through.  Remember, if you don't have INTERNET defined when
you build news, it'll reply through the Path!


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John Owens		Old Dominion University - Norfolk, Virginia, USA
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