Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!crdgw1!rpi!tale From: tale@cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: Question about my news "Reply-To" path. Message-ID: <&WNSY^@rpi.edu> Date: 12 Jan 90 07:58:06 GMT References: <50351@bu.edu.bu.edu> Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY Lines: 46 In <50351@@bu.edu.bu.edu> clement%buengf.bu.edu@bu-cs.bu.edu (Clement Lee): ^^^^^^^ not terribly siginificant, as it is just an id, but perhaps something you might want to look into fixing. > I have installed NNTP's remote readnews program on my machine a week > ago, and upon "following-up" news, I found my "Reply-To" path to be > the following when the editor was once invoked: > > clement@buengf.UUCP > > And I have to change it to "clement%buengf.bu.edu@bu-cs.bu.edu" > everytime, as my friend advised me. Others have already answered this but I wanted to offer a comment about putting a UUCP machine name as the return address when the machine has an Internet or other domain name. This is what I mail to people when I observe it: Since you have both an Internet address and a UUCP address, you might want to consider making the Internet address the default address for replies, either via the Reply-To: header or in the From: header if you do not use Reply-To:. It is much easier on many people (like me :-) who want to make replies and much more efficient where it can be used. It also seems to generally be the case that more UUCP people know how to gate to the Internet than Internet people know how to get mail to UUCP sites. Note also that it is a good idea to put the domain address for non-Internet machines even if the machine is UUCP only. For example, I don't know what sort of network connexions The Well has but I think that using user@well.sf.ca.us is preferred to user@well.UUCP, though for 90%+ cases it probably doesn't make a difference. In mcb@presto.IG.COM (Michael Berch) > BUT, the correct answer is that your From: and Reply-To: headers > should have the address > clement@buengf.bu.edu Better yet, make this appear in just the From: line and don't bother with the redundant information in Reply-To:. Dave -- (setq mail '("tale@cs.rpi.edu" "tale@ai.mit.edu" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet"))