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From: mlandau@diamond.bbn.com.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.misc
Subject: Re: rn Reply-To header considered harmful
Message-ID: <6342@garnet.BBN.COM>
Date: Thu, 4-Jun-87 22:37:57 EDT
Article-I.D.: garnet.6342
Posted: Thu Jun  4 22:37:57 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 6-Jun-87 11:43:06 EDT
References: <1234@epimass.EPI.COM>
Reply-To: mlandau@Diamond.BBN.COM (Matt Landau)
Organization: BBN Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, MA
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Keywords: not everyone is in the UUCP domain
Xref: utgpu news.software.b:624 news.misc:447
Summary: fix Pnews

In news.software.b (<1234@epimass.EPI.COM>), jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) 
writes:
>
>rn assumes that everyone is in the UUCP domain, and generates
>Reply-To headers accordingly.  In many cases, the result is not
>disasterous (if the site is on the UUCP map, say), but sometimes it
>is.  For example, check this article out (irrelevant stuff zapped):  

The real solution is to fix Pnews (and a few other parts of rn) to
understand about domains.  This is one area in which rn lags way behind the
world at large, and the 2.11 news distribution in particular.  However,
Larry Wall is reported to be working on a major new release of rn, so
perhaps we'll see more support for domain names?  In the meantime, it
really isn't hard to fix Pnews to generate the correct headers, as this
article demonstrates.  (Check the Reply-To header!)
-- 
 Matt Landau			    "Lead me not into temptation...
 mlandau@diamond.bbn.com	     		I can find it myself."