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From: biep@cs.vu.nl (J. A. "Biep" Durieux)
Newsgroups: news.misc,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: BITNET redistributions and USENET Gateways (or Why I Hate BITNET)
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Date: 1 Feb 88 17:32:05 GMT
References: <607@cernvax.UUCP> <2802@alvin.mcnc.org> <1727@saturn.ucsc.edu> <22802@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <11005@duke.cs.duke.edu>
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In article <11005@duke.cs.duke.edu> ravi@duke.UUCP (Ravi Subrahmanyan) writes:
 >Bill Westfield has added a "SENDER" field to the outgoing digests,
 >in the hope that the errant BITNET mailer(s) will bounce mail back
 >to the address in the SENDER field, and not to the name in the "FROM" field. 
 >The SENDER field is set to "info-atari-request" (...).
 >The "FROM" field remains "info-atari", so that BITNET folks who use
 >the REPLY function to send notes to info-atari will be able to do so
 >without swamping the "request" address with mail that should go to the list. 
 >Of course, all this assumes some sort of rational behaviour on the part
 >of the BITNET mailers...

I think the "From: " field should contain the address of the person who
wrote the article. Hitting the whole newsgroup/mailing list/whatever
should never be the default.

 >>P.S.	there is a special place in purgatory for the people
 >>	responsible for BITNET's so-called mail system.		[-Erik Fair]
 
 >	I just wanted everyone to read that again..		-ravi
-- 
						Biep.  (biep@cs.vu.nl via mcvax)
	Never confound "power", "command" with "right",
	 especially not when it concerns our own body!