roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) (09/03/85)
The following message showed up here today. I wanted to send something back to the originator, but there doesn't seem to be any valid return address anywhere. Is there anything that can be done about this sort of stuff? Is this a "legal" message as defined in the usenet standard. As far as I can make out from the standard I have, the "From:" or "Reply-To:" header is supposed to contain a valid mail address which will get back to the originator. In this case, all the headers which might give me a clue as to who posted it contain useless references to some gateway. There isn't even a .signature which says where it came from. suspect message below: ---------------------- From @CSNET-RELAY.ARPA,@ucsc.csnet Fri Aug 30 20:18:11 1985 Relay-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site phri.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: phri!timeinc!vax135!petsd!peora!ucf-cs!novavax!houligan!brl-tgr!tgr!@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA,@ucsc.csnet From: @CSNET-RELAY.ARPA,@ucsc.csnet Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: DEVICE-INDEPENDENT TROFF Message-ID: <1142@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: 31 Aug 85 00:18:11 GMT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.1142 Posted: Fri Aug 30 20:18:11 1985 Date-Received: 3 Sep 85 03:02:50 GMT Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 4 John Ousterhaut at Berkely will send it to you if you send him a blank tape. We love it. Niel -- Roy Smith <allegra!phri!roy> System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016