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Prefixing localhost! to From:'s

#4181
From: David Herron, Resident E-mail Ha...
Date: Sun, 03 May 1987 21:08
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Just to show a bad form of prefixing, let me show a real-live message
I've received:

> Received: from cbosgd by UKMG.ukma.UUCP id aa10881; 2 May 87 21:12 EDT
> Received: by cbosgd.ATT.COM (smail2.1)
> 	id AA10900; 2 May 87 11:02:42 EDT (Sat)
> Received: by emory.eu (5.51/5.7)
> 	id AA13893; Fri, 1 May 87 13:41:47 EDT
> Received: by emory.eu (5.51/5.7)
> 	id AA13879; Fri, 1 May 87 13:41:08 EDT
> Received: by arizona.arizona.edu; Fri, 1 May 87 10:38:32 MST
> Date: Fri, 1 May 87 10:38:29 MST
> From: Bill Mitchell <emory!whm@arizona.edu>
		       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Message-Id: <8705011738.AA02124@megaron.arizona.edu>
> Received: by megaron.arizona.edu; Fri, 1 May 87 10:38:29 MST
> To: mtxinu!43nfs-bugs@sun.com
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Subject: Re:  Integration of Sun's 3.2 NFS code
> Cc: mtxinu-users@emory.arpa
> In-Reply-To: <8702262208.AA06988@megaron.arizona.edu>
> Errors-To: emory!mtxinu-users-request
> 
>       From mtxinu!heidi@Sun.COM Thu Feb 26 14:58:31 1987
	     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>       To: arizona.edu!whm@Sun.COM
	    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>       Subject: Re:  Integration of Sun's 3.2 NFS code

Gee, with all those mixed-mode addresses I have no idea where *anybody* is.

The only one I know of for sure is "emory!whm@arizona.edu".  The only
way that could have come about is if emory prepended its' hostname to
the address.  (I happen to know that Bill Mitchell is at arizona,
which is backed up by the Message-ID: and first Received: headers).

As has been gone over countless times, the meaning of that address
depends on how we interpret that address.  If we give preference to
the ! then it happens to work.  If we give preference to the @ then
it doesn't work.  Since we are a {CSNET,INTERNET}/{BITNET,UUCP} site
(with that order of paying-attention-to-standards) we give preference
to the @, meaning that any of the mail we receive from the mtxinu
mailing list will be un-replyable.
-- 
-----   David Herron,  cbosgd!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET, david@ms.uky.csnet
-----  (also "postmaster", "news", and the Usenet map maintainer for Kentucky.)
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From: david@ms.uky.csnet (David Herron, Resident E-mail Hack)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Prefixing localhost! to From:'s
Message-ID: <6484@ukma.ms.uky.csnet>
Date: Sun, 3-May-87 17:08:56 EDT
Article-I.D.: ukma.6484
Posted: Sun May  3 17:08:56 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 6-May-87 00:37:27 EDT
Organization: U of Ky, Math. Sciences, Lexington KY
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