Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!utcsri!utegc!rayan From: rayan@utegc.UUCP Newsgroups: ont.uucp Subject: Re: UofT mail being sent over RSCS Message-ID: <8704172259.AA20626@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu> Date: Fri, 17-Apr-87 17:59:42 EST Article-I.D.: ephemera.8704172259.AA20626 Posted: Fri Apr 17 17:59:42 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Apr-87 04:39:33 EST Reply-To: Rayan Zachariassen Distribution: ont Organization: University of Toronto, AI group Lines: 34 Checksum: 14791 Summary: its due to wrong use of Path: news header In article <7004@orchid.UUCP> egisin@orchid.UUCP (Eric Gisin) writes: # My first complaint is that the rscs mailers did not # insert Received lines, so I don't know how the mail was routed. The routing was utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!egisin, according to logs. # One of the mailers also failed to rewrite the From address # to include a top level domain, either .uucp or .toronto.edu. It could be that Henry sent it looking like that. In any case, the mailer on utgpu won't touch such stuff going to RSCS except in the absence of '@'. # The second complaint is that rscs is known for its inability to # transfer text files between ascii systems without mangling them. There has been talk of working around this in a commonly agreed-upon way... # I assume this routing was done for economical reasons, # but I think it will cause a lot of problems for users. It would if that was the routing used to Waterloo, but it isn't. It's the routing used to host 'water' which is a NetNorth node. The problem is that the Path: line of some news article was used to reply, instead of another more proper route. This has happened in the reverse direction from Waterloo to Toronto too. The mailer on water is defined to receive messages in PUNCH format, and that is the reason for the 4-blanks-in-an- empty-line symptom. If one could send it NETDATA format, that little problem would go away. It would also stop making vanilla sendmail think that part of the message is really part of the header. rayan -- Rayan Zachariassen AI group, University of Toronto