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- From: wb8foz@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (David Lesher)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: "Reply to *typed* address"
- Date: 9 Jan 1993 19:53:47 GMT
- Organization: NRK Clinic for habitual NetNews abusers - Beltway Annex
- Lines: 29
- Message-ID: <1inagbINNc3f@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- References: <199301081909.AA18974@amhux3.amherst.edu> <9301090949.AA22849@SERVER.uwindsor.ca> <1993Jan9.163319.657@das.harvard.edu>
- Reply-To: wb8foz@skybridge.scl.cwru.edu (David Lesher)
- NNTP-Posting-Host: skybridge.scl.cwru.edu
-
- I have to concur that a way to Resend to a different address, but with
- the same text, (i.e. Read my lips - no new headers ;-) would be
- useful.
-
- My reason is that I attempt to reply to postings from within my
- newsreader. But the dark side of NNTP access is that too many netters
- now post from boxes with completely bogus From: lines. Then, when mail
- bounces, you must grep around in the headers and look for a real
- address to Resend it to.
-
- This is also the case with mail to att, for example, where they post
- all articles with addresses on cbnews{a-z} & half of my attempts to
- THOSE bounce, too ;-{
-
- Now, I can use the Bounce command, but I generally don't want to. Why?
- I generally go back and add a sentence pointing out the poster's bogus
- From: header. Most go fix them; a minority write back with language of
- "I can damm well post with any address I want, bud" or "what do expect
- ME to do about it, anyhow?" [at worst, add a Reply-To:, I say]
-
- But given the Elm volunteers are up to their collective compilers with
- other things that need doing; I'll understand why this does not appear
- for a long time......
-
- --
- A host is a host from coast to coast..wb8foz@skybridge.scl.cwru.edu
- & no one will talk to a host that's close..........................
- Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433
- is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
-