Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!daveb
From: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Survey on damage by mailers.
Summary: how 'bout turning me into a subdomain...?
Keywords: mail damage domains
Message-ID: <2050@geac.UUCP>
Date: 31 Dec 87 21:51:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: geac.2050
Posted: Thu Dec 31 16:51:26 1987
References: <408@minya.UUCP> <77@sickkids.UUCP>
Reply-To: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Organization: The little blue rock next to that twinkly star.
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>In article <408@minya.UUCP> jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) writes:
>
>> Hello.  I'm interested in characterizing the sorts of damage that the
>> existing electronic mail systems can do to mail as they move it about.
>> Can you add to the list?
>
In article <77@sickkids.UUCP> mark@sickkids.UUCP (Mark Bartelt) writes:
>I'd be delighted.
>
>I consider complaints about minor mangling of messages (for example, the
>"From" ==> ">From" controversy; talk about getting worked up about trivia!)
>to be hardly worth discussing, when compared to the real disasters:  Mailers
>that diddle with headers, especially when they diddle in demonstrably WRONG
>ways.

  Another interesting form of header munging is to assume that if I
reach site far via near, that far is a subdomain of near.
  Case in point?  If I send to near-host!medium-distance-host!somewhere!fred,
fred gets handed a message which claims that I'm
	daveb@geac.near-host.medium-distance-host[.uucp]
  I can assure you that geac is not a subdomain of near-host, much less
medium-distance-host.  Geac is the only canadian mainframe
manufacturer, not a subdomain of some #$!&&%*+@!?? unregistered
domain... [Gee I'm grumpy today: happy new year?]
  This can make it hard for fred to reply to me unless he transforms
the address back to !s or to @medium-distance-host,@near-host,daveb@geac 
As you might guess, fred get annoyed with me...
-- 
 David Collier-Brown.                 {mnetor|yetti|utgpu}!geac!daveb
 Geac Computers International Inc.,   |  Computer Science loses its
 350 Steelcase Road,Markham, Ontario, |  memory (if not its mind)
 CANADA, L3R 1B3 (416) 475-0525 x3279 |  every 6 months.