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From: loverso@sunybcs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Sending Email to People who post to the USENET
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Date: Sat, 28-Feb-87 13:31:59 EST
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In article <1354@hplabsc.UUCP> taylor@hplabs.HP.COM (Dave Taylor) writes:
> BUT as far as what we're talking about here, the best solution I can 
> make is for people to have mail systems that grab not only the 
> From: address in the posting, but the Path: address too, and read the
> Path: backwards until it finds a 'backbone' that it knows (you can
> have a file containing the 10 or 15 main ones, if you want) and then
> figures out the optimal (static, alas) route to that backbone.

This would work except for the fact that the "Path:" header of a news article
only describes news links.  Assuming such links are bidirectional or that they
carry mail is to lose big.