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From: eric@ists.ists.ca (Eric M. Carroll)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Vicious rewriting of From: lines
Message-ID: <3333@ists.ists.ca>
Date: 14 Dec 89 19:07:46 GMT
References: <1107891037263761@thelake.UUCP> <7256@ficc.uu.net>
Reply-To: eric@ists.ists.ca (Eric M. Carroll)
Organization: Institute for Space and Terrestrial Science
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>Well, I've had all sorts of problems getting to sites at WU, and have gotten
>the most amazing bounces from wuarchive and nearby sites. I suspect that they,
>or someone topologically close to them, is a liberal header rewriter.
>
>Also, texbell.lonestar.org tends to create fictional From: lines. This seems
>to be due to a piece of excessive RFC-ishness in smail 3.0 alpha. If you ever
>get weird mail with my signature from texbell!Postmaster, that's what happened.

Yes, no question - either wuarchive, texbell or someone hiding right
around there has been causing me significant grief recently. I have to
transit these sites to get to several elm and uucp development people
and I consistently get seriously smashed mail from right around here.

I suspected mailrus for a while, but convinced myself that its not them.

Can anyone help localized this? I cannot bring it to the attention of
postmasters I cannot localize. I can likely dig up some paths to help
the quest.

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Eric Carroll		    Postmaster
Institute for Space and Terrestrial Science