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Article #4106Re: Sending Email to People who post to the USENET
From: jordan
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1987 23:43
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1987 23:43
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it's really a shame that people like dave believe that the Path: line has any useful information in it. it should *never* be used for routing mail, not even for a hint. not even with any amount of AI you might code into your idea ... it's simply not going to work. i get a large amount of mail dumped into the postmaster mailbox all the time (this is on the machine ames, a backbone site) that is people trying to use the Path: line and who also have a broken From: line so that the bounce bounces ... when i had more time, i used to send a note back telling them what to do ... after 100 or so of these, i gave up. it made me wonder about why people think mail is so unreliable sometimes. it's probably due to the fact that the From: line is unrealiable and a bounce was unable to get sent back ... /jordan
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!cbatt!ucbvax!ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU!jordan From: jordan@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Sending Email to People who post to the USENET Message-ID: <17699@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Wed, 4-Mar-87 18:43:04 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.17699 Posted: Wed Mar 4 18:43:04 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 6-Mar-87 05:30:30 EST References: <1354@hplabsc.UUCP> Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: jordan@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Jordan Hayes) Organization: Experimental Computer Facility (XCF), UC Berkeley Lines: 16