terry@DVAX (02/13/88)
(Note the FROM: field of all my outgoing mail contains "terry@DVAX") >I would like to recommend that consideration also be given to the pros and >cons of sending out mail containing an incomplete From: field. > >Bob Bob, If your message is meant to suggest that my mail message contained an incomplete "FROM:" field, I feel compelled to answer. The address was complete. It is the COMPLETE address of my node on our local net. I will agree is doesn't conform to standards. If I had the authority to change the name to meet the standard format, I would. (Not that you could use it anyway.) However, please note I did include my COMPLETE MILNET address at the bottom of my message, and, most importantly, I included the proper punctuation at the end of my subject line. --- Terry Robb --- P.S. If your mail message meant something else... nevermind. ************************************************************************ *- Terence A. Robb -* *- Network Solutions -* *- Systems Programming Specialist -* *- MILnet: terry@dec-vax-11-750.arpa -* *- PHONEnet: (703) 749-1918 -* *- MAILnet: 8229 Boone Blvd., 7th Floor, Vienna, Virginia, 22180 -* ************************************************************************ *! !* *! Disclaimer !* *! !* *! I alone take responsiblity for the content of this message... !* *! but if there is any problem, blame my children. !* *! !* ************************************************************************
gross@gateway.mitre.ORG (Phill Gross) (02/16/88)
> If your message is meant to suggest that my mail message contained > an incomplete "FROM:" field, I feel compelled to answer. Terry, The heck with your `From:' line--I want to complain about your 15 line signoff message! Your signoff is generally longer than the message itself. Please help reduce bit chaff on the network. (You will also be showing consideration for folks who read mail over 1200 baud dial-up lines.) Phill Gross
ahill@CC7.BBN.COM ("Alan R. Hill") (02/16/88)
It might also help if the current trend of including excerpts and complete text of subject messages in responses wasn't so popular. It seems as though messages are getting more and more verbose as time passes (please don't construe this to mean that I think messages contain useless input). Alan
EVANSL@VTVM1.BITNET (Lyle Evans) (02/17/88)
Amen. Besides using net capacity excessive signatures use up disk space for tho se who store messages.
RAF@NIHCU.BITNET ("Roger Fajman") (02/19/88)
> It might also help if the current trend of including excerpts and > complete text of subject messages in responses wasn't so popular. It seems > as though messages are getting more and more verbose as time passes (please > don't construe this to mean that I think messages contain useless input). I like to see an excerpt from the message being responded to. It helps me keep track of the several threads of conversation that I am trying to follow on multiple lists.