Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!nrl-cmf!cmcl2!beta!unm-la!unmvax!turing.UNM.EDU!mike From: mike@turing.UNM.EDU (Michael I. Bushnell) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: Posting for the rest of us Keywords: piontlessness and commonality Message-ID: <1042@unmvax.unm.edu> Date: 10 May 88 05:51:04 GMT References: <4203@dasys1.UUCP> <259@ateng.UUCP> <10944@jade.BBN.COM> Sender: news@unmvax.unm.edu Reply-To: mike@turing.UNM.EDU (Michael I. Bushnell) Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Lines: 43 In article <10944@jade.BBN.COM> mlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau) writes: >In news.misc (<259@ateng.UUCP>), chip@ateng.UUCP (Chip Salzenberg) writes: >>I get at least 50% success on replies. Part of it is examining the message >>before I send it. Sometimes I get stupidities like: >> >> To: foobar@xyzzy.UNM.EDU.UUCP >> >>If you can't R)eply, complain to your postmaster! Making it work (mostly!) >>is his job. > >Actually, in a case like this, I'd say "Complain to usenet@xyzzy.unm.edu" >and tell him or her that the local news system is generating bogus headers. >There are a tremendous number of sites that just can't seem to get their >acts together well enough to generate sensible From: lines in the first >place. Rather than try to get the replying site to compensate for brain >damaged senders, let's all put pressure on the senders make sure their >news installations are doing things correctly. Sheesh. OK, fine. Now that our local stupidity is being discussed on usenet, I'll fix it NOW. Time for that rn reconfig... Actually, though, this is rue. When our site generates bad headers, and it causes problems, tell me and I'll fix it. When the header is correct, tell you local postmaster that it can't be delivered. The real problem, though, is that sometimes people don't know whether the address is correct. The proper solution, in such cases, is to talk to your local net.guru, and have him complain to the remote site if applicable. -- N u m q u a m G l o r i a D e o Michael I. Bushnell HASA - "A" division 14308 Skyline Rd NE Computer Science Dept. Albuquerque, NM 87123 OR Farris Engineering Ctr. OR University of New Mexico mike@turing.unm.edu Albuquerque, NM 87131 {ucbvax,gatech}!unmvax!turing.unm.edu!mike