Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!orcenl!news
From: news@orcenl.uucp (News adm'r, Bjorn Engsig)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Using .UUCP (pseudo) domain too much
Keywords: From: line in news, domains
Message-ID: <485.orcenl@orcenl.uucp>
Date: 3 Nov 88 14:12:56 GMT
Organization: ORACLE Europe, The Netherlands
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It seems, that articles from sites with real domain names, often does not
put this domain in their news From: (or Reply-To:) line.  If their
machine is not registred in the uucp-map, it is not possible to reply
directly to the sender, if the from line is simply From: user@host.UUCP.

I'v tried this several times, getting the mail back from my backbone, and
then I have to look for the real name (with the correct domain) in the
signature or somewhere else.

I'm aware that this involves lots of news administrators, but it cannot
be urged strongly enough to change the .UUCP to your proper domain, if
you cannot be reached thru the uucp maps.  In news, version 2.11 you do
it by defining MYDOMAIN or GENERICFROM in your defs.h via localize.sh.

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