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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Do `%' and `!' imply (Data link layer) connectivity information?
Message-ID: <3098@phri.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jan 88 16:32:28 GMT
References: <5165@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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Summary: Somebody must be doing strange things to our articles.

In <5165@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> earle@mahendo.JPL.NASA.GOV (Greg Earle) writes:
> recently I've been seeing things like
> 	roy%phri@uunet.UU.NET
> which threw me for a loop, as I assumed that phri had a UUCP link (perhaps
> over Telenet) to uunet, but not an IP-level link.

	It's worse than that.  Phri has no connection to uunet at all (I
should know; I'm phri!postmaster).  I assume you're talking about "Reply-To:"
addresses on our articles; I just followed-up to Greg's article using the rn
"F" command, and see "Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)" in the outgoing
headers.  If somebody is turning that into "roy%phri@uunet.UU.NET", something
is broken.  It's not clear what path outgoing articles take from here.  Our
main news feed is cmcl2, but we broadcast local articles to philabs, allegra,
and rutgers as well.
-- 
Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016