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From: ravi@mcnc.org (Ravi Subrahmanyan)
Newsgroups: news.misc,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: BITNET redistributions and USENET Gateways (or Why I Hate BITNET)
Message-ID: <2816@alvin.mcnc.org>
Date: 3 Feb 88 02:42:54 GMT
References: <607@cernvax.UUCP> <2802@alvin.mcnc.org> <1727@saturn.ucsc.edu> <22802@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <11005@duke.cs.duke.edu> <980@klipper.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: ravi@mcnc.org.UUCP (Ravi Subrahmanyan)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Microelectronics Center of NC; RTP, NC
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Summary: Well, they're *digests*, you see, so there isn't one author.

In article <980@klipper.cs.vu.nl> biep@cs.vu.nl (J. A. "Biep" Durieux) writes:
>
>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.

	The stuff referred to in the original articles (which info-atari 
sends out to bitnet) is in the form of DIGESTS, so there isn't any one author.  
The sender is therefore "info-atari", and replies to that address are
sent out to the newsgroup.  That's how it all works, and except for
occasional glitches, it's pretty reasonable overall..

								-ravi