Xref: utzoo news.admin:4004 news.software.b:1752 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ukma!david From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b Subject: Re: Who is munging article headers (Berkeley, I suspect), and WHY? Message-ID: <10573@s.ms.uky.edu> Date: 16 Nov 88 16:34:30 GMT References: <115@sickkids.UUCP> Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Distribution: na Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 17 The munged article you received was by way of the gateway code which is running at Berkeley. They handle the gatewaying between comp.protocols.ibm and whatever mailing list is attached to that group. (As well as other newsgroup<->mailing list pairs). The code does all the transormations you described, except it will preserve the any present article-id. But, as I recall, comp.protocols.ibm is from a LISTSERV based mailing list, and I wouldn't put it past LISTSERV to get rid of the article-id... BITNET often does gratuitous disregard of existing standards/practices for what they feel are good reasons. Hope this helps -- <-- David Herron; an MMDF guy <-- ska: David le casse\*' {rutgers,uunet}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <-- <-- Controlled anarchy -- the essence of the net.