Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!tale From: tale@cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: news.config Subject: Re: someone is leaking 'princeton' distribution or munging headers Message-ID: Date: 30 Dec 89 22:59:23 GMT References: <10371@pucc.Princeton.EDU> Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY Lines: 36 In <10371@pucc.Princeton.EDU> IRWIN@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Irwin Tillman) writes: > I posted that article with a 'princeton' distribution, as it was not > relevant to people outside of this area. I'm receiving notices > (read "hate mail") from around the world telling me that the article > reached them. They're wrong to send you hate mail for it. If they looked at the distribution header they would have seen your intent. > I assume that some site is munging the Distribution header. Wrong assumption. Site princeton itself is most likely directly responsible for that article leaving your area; you probably should have spoken to that news admin first about this. I posted a rather lengthy <#5`G1_@rpi.edu> just over two weeks ago to news.sysadmin explaining the Distribution: conundrum. Unfortunately I didn't save it, or I would just have mailed it to you. Perhaps someone that keeps 15+ days of news on their system will see this and be kind enough to forward it to you. (Which is why I posted this reply now in spite of not attempting to explain it again.) Here are the headers of your article: Path: rpi!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!texbell!rutgers!njin!princeton!phoenix!pucc!IRWIN From: IRWIN@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Irwin Tillman) Newsgroups: news.config Date: 29 Dec 89 20:11:00 GMT Reply-To: IRWIN@pucc.Princeton.EDU Distribution: princeton Organization: Princeton University, NJ Lines: 12 Disclaimer: Author bears full responsibility for contents of this article Dave -- (setq mail '("tale@cs.rpi.edu" "tale@ai.mit.edu" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet"))