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From: bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.config
Subject: Re: Solution to news dup site names
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Date: 24 Aug 88 18:55:37 GMT
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In article <1290@ficc.UUCP> peter@ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>How about a smart application of domainised paths?
>
>If you have a domain name, or are registered, check the path. Only
>put your full name in if nobody has already.
>...
>That way, paths would have at least one valid, reachable, name.

But Path: lines aren't to be used for mail replies, only as an audit
trail ("Don't put that in your mouth, you don't where it's been!" :-)
to describe the path of the article.  If the Path: already contains a
fully-qualified domain name and I therefore don't add to it, then the
connectivity information is lost.  There might as well be no Path:
line.

If you need a valid, reachable address for mail, you're supposed to
use the From: line.  Similarly, you're not supposed to put anything
else in a From: line.

We must be taking a lonely stance on this one - we're starting to be
used as a counterexample :-).
-=-
									--Bob
He probably just wants to take over my CELLS and then EXPLODE
 inside me like a BARREL of runny CHOPPED LIVER!  Or maybe he'd
 like to PSYCHOLIGICALLY TERRORISE ME until I have no objection
 to a RIGHT-WING MILITARY TAKEOVER of my apartment!!  I guess
 I should call AL PACINO!