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Article #225Re: Princeton policy on From lines
From: Neil Rickert
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 03:54
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 03:54
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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. >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.
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Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy,alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!rickert From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) Subject: Re: Princeton policy on From lines Message-ID: <1992Oct7.035444.8042@mp.cs.niu.edu> Organization: Northern Illinois University References: <RSM.92Oct6163504@coral.math.arizona.edu> Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 03:54:44 GMT Lines: 19