From: utzoo!decvax!ittvax!qumix!msc Newsgroups: net.news.b Title: return addresses Article-I.D.: qumix.138 Posted: Mon Jul 12 17:05:57 1982 Received: Tue Jul 13 06:45:29 1982 I have just tried, for the nth time, to reply to news from one of the various weird mailers on the net. (In this case Berknet). As soon as I typed the 'r' command and saw the To line I realised that I was wasting my time. The situation is impossible. The only way to reply to one of these articles is to shell escape to mail with the address suitably munged. If mail (we use ucbmail) could at least allow you to edit the 'To' line, it would not be necessary type the sometimes very long paths without error. Another major problem is that in most cases I don't know how to mung the address for correct delivery. COULD SOMEONE POST A LIST TO THE NET OF HOW TO MUNG ADDRESSES FROM ALL THESE STRANGE MAIL SYSTEMS. A much easier solution (for everyone not involved in maintaining mailers) would seem to be to change these strange mailers and foreign network interfaces to send on the from line an address which when reversed, will get back to them.