Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pyrdc!netsys!ames!killer!wisner
From: wisner@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Bill Wisner)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: host!user@sun.com (was smail wants you to register a domain)
Message-ID: <5460@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 10 Sep 88 01:06:35 GMT
References: <70@volition.dec.com> <71@volition.dec.com> <12307@ncoast.UUCP> <1289@mcgill-vision.UUCP> <67663@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: wisner@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Bill Wisner)
Organization: HASA
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To: nowicki%rose@Sun.COM

>Exactly! That is the whole point.  I have said this before, and will
>likely say it again many times before it sinks in: if you have a
>registered domain name in your From: line when going through Sun, then
>people WILL be able to reply to it.  All those people whining about
>unreplyable mail should instead complain about people who have NOT
>registered their domains, or do not send valid From: lines to us.

Oh, sure, they can reply. BUT YOU STILL SHOULD *NOT* BE TOUCHING MY
FROM LINES. I've registered my domain, I send you valid From: lines,
yet Sun still merrily chomps my headers. I don't like that. Why should
replies to me go through an extra site, Sun, with the requisite extra
delay and extra load on Sun? *I* don't want that and I'm sure Sun would
be just as happy if they DIDN'T have to handle that message.

>It is hard for me to justify spending time on something just because
>our competitors are too lazy to follow the standards.

Hah hah hee hee ho ho ho snicker.

This is priceless.

STANDARDS?

I follow the standards perfectly and your mailer still spits on me.
Justify that.

How hard can it be to pass valid domains unmolested?