Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!ucsd!nosc!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!munnari!vuwcomp!duncan From: duncan@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Duncan McEwan) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: using Path: for mail replies Message-ID: <14142@comp.vuw.ac.nz> Date: 22 Aug 88 21:23:52 GMT References: <676@bacchus.dec.com> <881@vsi1.uucp> <10135@e.ms.uky.edu> <60@minya.uucp> <8528@swan.ulowell.edu> <879@ncrcan.toronto.ncr.com> <63@volition.dec.com> Reply-To: duncan@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Duncan McEwan) Organization: Comp Sci, Victoria Univ, Wellington, New Zealand Lines: 26 In article eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond) writes: >I understand the problem you've been discussing, but I have rejected (for now) >the idea of eliminating Path lines as available for reply generation. Doing so >would leave an awful lot of small UUCP-only sites (the ones *not* running >smail) in the lurch. Not so, if news 3.0 supports a feature like the "internet" entry in news 2.11's "LIBDIR/mailpaths" file. Then small sites can use the Internet "From: " address without having to run smail, pathalias, or receive comp.mail.maps. The introduction of a totally new version of news is too good an oportunity to correct past mistakes -- we shouldn't repeat them in the name of backwards-compatibility if there is a reasonably easy way to avoid them. >An alternative I am looking into is bundling the smail software with news and >arranging the news autoconfigure/install sequence to also configure and install >smail. This would be a good thing to do anyway, since larger sites should not rely on the "internet" entry in "mailpaths" to dump all their mail onto one internet host. Duncan