From: utzoo!decvax!duke!harpo!floyd!vax135!lime!martin Newsgroups: net.news.b Title: Re: long source paths blow rnews Article-I.D.: lime.264 Posted: Fri Jun 18 19:14:55 1982 Received: Sat Jun 19 04:53:24 1982 using the inews program to shorten the news is great, in fact the simple way to do it is to use the output of euuname (in lib/news ?), this is a list of machine you want the world to know you talk too. i have lots of machines in my L.sys file that dont know about me and i don't think are reliable links for mail. as for the infomation passed to the user, why not give him the real infomation required to decide if the article is worth reading, just give him the machine and user who send it. example:- this article when read in lime From martin ........ this article when read anywhere else From lime!martin ..... putting in the Via line is a great idea, i can check long paths if i want to, but dont get bored by them normally (it is fun to see some very long path article, when it comes from your news partner!). i also helps when instructing users in news/mail usage, i have found users sending mail via all sorts of path just because thats the way news traveled the first day there old university/employers machine name popped up. news is a cause of some very long reply mail paths, lets improve the 'villan'. martin levy, bell labs, holmdel. (mail path as above,please shorten it manually!).