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From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: List of sites with broken Followup (No References) Software
Message-ID: <1720@papaya.bbn.com>
Date: 10 May 89 15:08:47 GMT
References: <3222@looking.UUCP>
Organization: BBN Systems and Technologies Corporation
Lines: 16

The Subject line of this thread is wrong.

As others have pointed out, most of the "broken" messages are probably the
result of news/mail software gatewaying.  In particular, the high number
for Rice is the sun-spots group.  Ohio-state gateways the GNU newsgroups.
BBN does the GNU/Emacs mailing list.  Would you give up those groups, or
annoy those moderators with automated postings?  I wouldn't.

Also, I sometimes manually delete References: headers.  If the header is
something you care about, then don't put it under user control, or do what
Inews does when someone tries to forge a From: line.

	/Rich $alz, keeper of the news/mail gateway at BBN
	and maintainer of the news-n-mail mailing list
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