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From: eric@egsner.cirr.com (Eric Schnoebelen)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Vicious rewriting of From: lines
Message-ID: <1989Dec16.021135.1594@egsner.cirr.com>
Date: 16 Dec 89 02:11:35 GMT
References: <1107891037263761@thelake.UUCP> <7256@ficc.uu.net>
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Reply-To: eric@egsner.cirr.com (Eric Schnoebelen)
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In article <3333@ists.ists.ca> eric@ists.ists.ca (Eric M. Carroll) writes:
-> 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've always been suspicious of wuarchive myself.  It seems that
I receive a lot of mail that has had the address mangled at wuarchive,
or one of the other wu* machines.

        Of course, I may be slightly biased, since texbell is my main
connection to the world, along with attctc.

        But, the only time I see mangled things are when they pass by
wuarchive, never had any problems with texbell.


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