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rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
>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.
>
>>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")
>
>I think, under a very strict interpretation of those rules, you are not
>altering the "From:" line at all - you are creating it before it otherwise
>exists.

Hmmmm....if I was writing that particular policy, I'd say something like:

	The "From" line of electronic mail, messages, and postings
	must include the following information:

		Your name (the name under which your access has been granted)
		A valid electronic reply address for you

	While you may certainly *add* information to the From line, it 
	MUST contain YOUR valid name/address information.  Deceptive or
	evasive modification of this information is a violation of this
	policy.

With something like this, you could take care of forgers and black-holers 
(those who set From lines to "/dev/null@princeton.edu" or whatever, to 
avoid replies/accountability), while regular folks could still inject a bit
of humor/sarcasm/wit into the otherwise boring header lines......

--Wes

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