greyham@hades.OZ (Greyham Stoney) (06/04/90)
karl_kleinpaste@cis.ohio-state.edu writes: >tp@mccall.com writes: > If by internet-compliant you also > mean rfc822 compliant, this is one of the rules of the game. If everybody > would leave the From: line alone, it would be reliable. >Feh. An entirely unsupportable assertion. If everybody left the >From: line alone, it would be set to whatever the first broken mailer >set it to, which is frequently incorrect right from the outset. Mail >gets here pretty routinely from UCBerkeley with OWHNs in the UNIX >From_ line, rewritten to "cis.ohio-state.edu." (No, not from ucbvax >or ucbarpa, but yes, from other UCB sites.) I feel compelled. His assertion is more correct than yours is. If everyone left From: alone completely, the sites that would be affected would be the sites that generate a bad From: line, and it would give them some encouragement to fix the thing. ONLY Gateways should change From:, since only a Gateway is expected to know the conversion from one network to another one. The rest of us should jolly well leave From: alone totally, for the reasons that tp@mccall.com just outlined quite well. If everyone does this, there's no problem. The originating site (and no others) should know how to correctly write its From: lines, so your site shouldn't be messing with them. -- /* Greyham Stoney: Australia: (02) 428 6476 * greyham@hades.oz - Ausonics Pty Ltd, Lane Cove, Sydney, Oz. */