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In article <RSM.92Oct6163504@coral.math.arizona.edu> rsm@math.arizona.edu (Robert S. Maier) writes:
|I just reviewed Princeton's "1992-1993 Guidelines for Use of Campus and
|Network Computing Resources", and had to chuckle at the following sentence:

|	Attempts to alter the "From" line or
|	other attribution of origin in electronic mail,
|	messages, or postings, will be considered
|	transgressions of University rules.

|I think the authors of the Guidelines meant to refer to _obfuscatory_ or
|_deceptive_ alterations of the From: line, not just any alteration!

|My personal .emacs file, a copy of which is on every machine I have an
|account on, contains the following lines:

|	 (setq gnus-user-login-name "rsm"
|	       gnus-use-generic-from "math.arizona.edu")

|For those who don't use the GNUS news reading & posting package, what these
|lines do is simple.  They set up a fixed From: line,

|	From: rsm@math.arizona.edu

|which will always appear on my postings.  No matter which NNTP server
|I post articles to (I have access to several), or what machine I post
|articles from.

|Apparently straightforward standardizations of this sort violate the
|Princeton Guidelines!  And what about all the people who append funny
|parenthetical comments to their From: lines?  Princeton sysadmins,
|please note.

What's even more amusing is that Princeton (perhaps only some machines,
perhaps having changed recently) was/were generating non RFC compliant
From: lines as well.  Namely, they were generating a bang address
(princeton!user or suchlike) instead of an "at" (eg: user@princeton.edu
or suchlike).

B news has this unfortunate tendency to discard From: lines that
look like this.
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