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From: jthomp@hemaneh.Central.Sun.COM (Jim Thompson  Sun Dallas IR)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: rewriting FROM: lines
Keywords: RFC 822, RFC 976, rudeness, bounce
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Date: 18 May 89 10:43:43 GMT
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In article <1989May17.194701.16816@ateng.ateng.com> chip@ateng.ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
>According to rja@edison.GE.COM (rja):
>>Lately I find that sites out in UUCP-only land are doing
>>rude things by way of rewriting my FROM: lines in bizarre
>>ways.

>If only the UUCP sites were the only ones at fault!  My most recent problems
>have been with cs.utexas.edu and Sun.COM, not exactly UUCP backwaters.

Interesting, can your provide examples?

Perhaps I can help clean our end up, *IF* we have a problem.

Its probably bad form to say this here, and I'll probably end up with
more hate mail than I ever need, but I'm going to state this anyway.

UUCP (and 'bang addressing') are a really stupid way of doing things.
Hence, foo@bar.UUCP is (almost) as bad as bar!foo.  I have no idea
which 'bar' you mean.  foo@bar.baz.{com,edu,org,net,...} Does tell me
which 'bar' you mean, and I have some hope of delivering it.

But then, you were complaining about domain addresses to begin with.


Nothing I've said has anything to do with where I work.

						Jim

Jim Thompson - Network Engineering - Sun Microsystems -	jthomp@central.sun.com
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