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Article #174Re: Princeton policy on From lines
From: Scott Merrilees
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 02:01
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 02:01
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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. > >... > > 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. Is this an alteration ? It would seem to me that you are not altering the from line, but generating it. Alteration implies that the from line already exists, and is changed. Sm -- Scott Merrilees, BHP Information Technology, Newcastle, Australia Internet: Sm@bhpese.oz.au Phone: +61 49 40 2132 Fax: ... 2165
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Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy,alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!darwin.sura.net!sgiblab!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!merlin!cerberus!cerberus.bhpese.oz.au!Sm From: Sm@cerberus.bhpese.oz.au (Scott Merrilees) Subject: Re: Princeton policy on From lines Organization: BHP, Newcastle, Australia Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 02:01:41 GMT Message-ID: <1992Oct12.020141.7051@cerberus.bhpese.oz.au> References: <RSM.92Oct6163504@coral.math.arizona.edu> Sender: news@cerberus.bhpese.oz.au (News System) Lines: 31