Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!mcgill-vision!mouse From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: Posting for the rest of us Keywords: pointlessness and commonality Message-ID: <1105@mcgill-vision.UUCP> Date: 16 May 88 09:56:23 GMT References: <4203@dasys1.UUCP> <4325@dasys1.UUCP> Organization: McGill University, Montreal Lines: 39 Posted: Mon May 16 05:56:23 1988 In article <4325@dasys1.UUCP>, jailbait@dasys1.UUCP (Richard Segal) writes: > In article <259@ateng.UUCP> chip@ateng.UUCP (Chip Salzenberg) writes: >> In article <4203@dasys1.UUCP> jailbait@dasys1.UUCP (Me, of all people) writes: >>> As I think we all know by now, (R)eply NEVER works. Not so, not at all. It works for me. At least 90% of the time. >> Sometimes I get stupidities like: >> To: foobar@xyzzy.UNM.EDU.UUCP If you see a domainoid address with .UUCP on the end, complain to usenet at that site. This sort of thing is symptomatic of mis-installed netnews software. > Well, for me, the biggest problem comes in when the address in the > article is a UUCP address, so the rn mailer auto-paths it differently > than it would should I put the address down as Foobar@faunch.uucp in > the to: line. If the address starts out UUCP then I get 20 or so > site path that almost always HAS to be corrected. With the UUCP > address defined by me, the pathing AFTER I mail the item usually > works. This sounds as though your newsreader is configured to use the Path: header line for replies. This is very, very wrong. At best it is horribly inefficient. Usually, there will be at least one hop in there that is a news feed but not a mail feed; if you're lucky, the "sending" machine will route the mail for you. (My opinion is that this option (use the Path: line for replies) should never have existed. The Path: line is not, and never has been, intended as a reply path, so nobody ensures that it's valid as a reply path. Consequently, it often (usually?) isn't.) Use Reply-To:, if it exists; otherwise use From:. der Mouse uucp: mouse@mcgill-vision.uucp arpa: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu