🚀 go-pugleaf

Just when I thought I'd seen every way possible to mung a From: line:

  From: wisc.EDU>' -P 'adm!ins_adsk%JHUNIX.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.EDU'
  Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
  Subject: [To]:     UNIX-WIZARDS@brl.arpa
  Message-ID: <4468@brl-adm.ARPA>
  Date: 15 Feb 87 17:14:35 GMT
  Sender: news@brl-adm.ARPA

I've been thinking that there should be some organization that made sure
sites had decent mailers - so many people violate the most fundamental
parts of the major RFC's, for various reasons.  Some sites, like
seismo, rutgers and csnet-relay do it because the admins there say
"if we were 100% compliant, many sites could not respond, since THEY
are not RFC compliant."  I say screw the sites that can't comply;
this is the fastest way to get them to shape up.

Far worse are the mailers that just plain mung addresses into an
unusable format - I've even seen a MAJOR Usenet site smash Cc:
lines, not to mention the From: lines.

So what can be done?  If the CSNET-relay generates (technically)
wrong addresses, should we expect them to police their member sites?
How about BITNET and Internet net police forces?

Lastly, how about UUCP sites?  No organization can do it, and I don't
know if any organization would want to.

..Bob
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Bob Page,  U of Lowell CS Dept.      ulowell!page,  page@ulowell.CSNET