david@ms.uky.csnet (David Herron, Resident E-mail Hack) (05/04/87)
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.) ----- "Doodle, doodle, dee; Wubba, wubba, wubba" /*