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From: jerry@oliveb.olivetti.com (Jerry Aguirre)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: pseudo inews puts client hostname in "Path:" line
Keywords: inews nntp path client
Message-ID: <21931@oliveb.olivetti.com>
Date: 17 May 88 00:42:02 GMT
References: <21631@oliveb.olivetti.com> <3289@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>
Reply-To: jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre)
Organization: Olivetti ATC; Cupertino, Ca
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In article <3289@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> phil@east.Berkeley.EDU (Phil Lapsley) writes:
>
>When somebody posts news through pasteur, say from "cory.berkeley.edu",
>the path line becomes:
>
>	Path: pasteur!cory.berkeley.edu!user
>
>which is ok; any replies will get to pasteur, which is a registered UUCP
>name, and pasteur can handle the cory.berkeley.edu business to do the
>right thing.  "pasteur!user" would be wrong.

Well, now that we have established that this is only for backward
compatability with ancient mailers perhaps we can discuss alternatives.

When I was writing I was aware of the fact that the user might not
have an account on the server and that replies using the path could
cause problems.  My assumption was that that such sites would maintain
mail aliases on the server site.  This is the way we maintain our
systems.  So, I would assume that in my case it would be OK to omit
the client name from the path line.

I realize this isn't a sollution for everyone.  Other sites may not want
to go to the extra overhead of system wide mail aliases or may not even
have unique login IDs.

				Jerry Aguirre