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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.

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