From: utzoo!decvax!goutal Newsgroups: net.general Title: signing articles Article-I.D.: decvax.278 Posted: Mon Aug 9 00:44:13 1982 Received: Mon Aug 9 05:12:26 1982 Can anyone explain the origins of the tradition of specifying the path (or route) to one's machine when signing an article. Perhaps it is different on other implementations, but from here it looks redundant; whenever I read an article from someone, the "from" field of the article header seems to specify their address as a path as seen from my home machine. Just curious...