keith@rlgvax.UUCP (keith) (07/23/83)
23 July 83 I just caught up on net.news, forgive the lateness of this response. I know, it's a pain if the address is forever. BUT!!!! What really turns my screw is the fact that some people don't put any address at all on their articles/mail. About 8 months ago, we were trying to get the source to rogue. Well, this very nice person wrote me that he had it, would send it to me, all I had to do was write him and tell him where to send it to. Well, he hadn't put an address after his signature and the header had been trashed. I never did get hold of him. David, headers get trashed an awful lot. Unfortunately. If an address isn't included, there is no way to be sure the correct address is in the header. Also, if you want to know what part of the world an article came from, just find the machine in the files that come off of net.news.map. Gene, your address *is* fairly long... How about creating, say, a couple of '.' files, one for Inter, one for uucp, one for whatever. Then, instead of using .signature, just read in one of those files when you finish editing the article you're about to send. That way, your address is simpler, shorter, and less likely to confuse. Keith ...![ allegra, seismo, mcnc, we13 ]!rlgvax!keith