[net.mail.headers] Wrong From and Path line in fa.* newsgroups

ekrell@ucla-cs.UUCP (11/21/84)

  We are an ARPA site and get some fa.* groups like fa.info-mac from
ARPANET. The From line in these articles doesn't have one single format
and you can see lines like

  From: John A. Doe <jdoe@foo.ARPA>
  From: jdoe@foo.ARPA
  From: jdoe at foo.ARPA
  From:jdoe@foo.ARPA (John A. Doe).

and some other formats that I can't recall right now. These messages are
recieved by a dummy acount called distimac, which in turn calls recnews
to post the article.
  The problem is that the Path: line in the article is built by appending
"ucla-cs!" (our site name) and the first "word" in the original From: line.
This will result in these 4 Path: lines (corresponding to the above 4 From:
lines):

  Path: ucla-cs!John
  Path: ucla-cs!jdoe@foo.ARPA
  Path: ucla-cs!jdoe
  Path: ucla-cs!jdoe@foo.ARPA

  When someone tries to reply to one of these articles, the "ucla-cs!" is
discarded and, except in cases 2 and 4, it is sent to a wrong address.
  Now, I'm sure there are some other ARPA sites in netland with the same
problem. As anybody come out with a way to extract the correct path ?

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    Eduardo Krell               UCLA Computer Science Department
    ekrell@ucla-locus.arpa      ..!{sdcrdcf,ihnp4,trwspp,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!ekrell