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From: dww@stl.stc.co.uk (David Wright)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: References line Re: Usenet Top-Level Domain Census
Message-ID: <1428@stl.stc.co.uk>
Date: 30 Apr 89 21:32:49 GMT
References: <164@ncis.tis.llnl.gov> <3164@looking.UUCP>
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In article <3164@looking.UUCP> brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
#Some sites aren't putting ot valid message-ids, but what's worse is that
#it seems a *lot* of posting software still isn't putting out a vaild
#References: line.   

Another 'sin' is bad Reply-to: lines.   These are very very common indeed,
because rn and rrn as supplied are set up to give you a Reply-to: in the 
form host.UUCP.    Until I noticed, our postings had a nice legal From:
line, but said Reply-to: user@acer.UUCP!   You have to hack Pnews etc.,
which not every news admin wants to bother with.   Please bother!

Regards,    David Wright       STL, London Road, Harlow, Essex  CM17 9NA, UK
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