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From: lyndon@ncc.Nexus.CA (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Newsgroups: news.config,news.admin
Subject: Re: third party email through AT&T machines to be discontinued
Summary: How does this affect news replies?
Message-ID: <10287@ncc.Nexus.CA>
Date: 10 Jun 88 22:03:38 GMT
References: <1316@cblpf.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: lyndon@ncc.nexus.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg)
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Organization: Nexus Computing Inc.
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In article <1316@cblpf.ATT.COM> attnews@ihnp4.att.com (Harold Jackson) writes:
 
>Effective September 1, 1988, pass-through email will be returned to the
>sender.  We may install software to generate warnings before then, so
>people won't suddenly be surprised.  We will update the UUCP map
>immediately.

Will the AT&T sites also be dropping off the USENET backbone?

If the AT&T sites continue to propogate news internally, and pass
those articles in and out via the few remaining gateways, there's
going to be a hell of a lot of mail bouncing at the gateways when
someone tries to reply to a news article, and their news software
uses the Path: to generate the return address.

I agree that these sites should smarten up their mailers, however
we're still living and working in the "real world" ... (sigh) The
only solution I can see to this bouncing mail problem is for AT&T
to drop off the backbone.

[ Nice paragraph formatting, eh? Maybe unbundling troff isn't all
  that much of a bad thing after all :-) ]

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