[comp.mail.misc] offensive header lines

aad+@andrew.cmu.edu (Anthony A. Datri) (07/07/87)

I can't speak for rn, but isn't it fairly standard for mailers (at least
Internet ones) to stick in Received: lines in all messages that go through
them?  We've got a distributed network of workstations.  To make it work in a
reasonable fashion with usenet, articles from all workstations go through the
bboards.andrew.cmu.edu machine.

pdb@sei.cmu.edu (Patrick Barron) (07/07/87)

In article <AUwI9Fy00WAKIMQ0d0@andrew.cmu.edu> aad+@andrew.cmu.edu (Anthony A. Datri) writes:
>I can't speak for rn, but isn't it fairly standard for mailers (at least
>Internet ones) to stick in Received: lines in all messages that go through
>them?  We've got a distributed network of workstations.  To make it work in a
>reasonable fashion with usenet, articles from all workstations go through the
>bboards.andrew.cmu.edu machine.


'rn' isn't a mailer, it's a news front-end.  In most of the Usenet world,
news and mail are two totally separate entities.  Here at the SEI, we're
using 'rn' as our news reader, and NNTP as our news transmission agent.
Except for generating E-Mail replies to articles, news never goes through
mail at all.  'rn' just opens an NNTP connection to our news machine, and
messages are read and posted through it.

After you mail your articles (with Messages, CUI, or whatever you're using),
they still have to be NNTP transmitted to the Usenet news server (probably
PT.CS.CMU.EDU in your case), and if your NNTP transmission system doesn't
strip out the header lines itself, then everyone will see them.

--Pat.