Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site hou3c.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!Hamilton.ES@PARC-MAXC.ARPA From: Hamilton.ES@PARC-MAXC.ARPA (Bruce Hamilton) Newsgroups: net.mail.headers Subject: Bogus "Arpanet hosts" Message-ID: <338@hou3c.UUCP> Date: Mon, 27-Feb-84 23:05:41 EST Article-I.D.: hou3c.338 Posted: Mon Feb 27 23:05:41 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 2-Mar-84 05:25:35 EST Sender: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist) Reply-To: Hamilton.ES@PARC-MAXC.ARPA Lines: 37 To: Header-People@mit-mc.ARPA Cc: Hamilton.ES@PARC-MAXC.ARPA It seems like every few days lately I try to reply to somebody, and the address on their "From" or "Reply-To" is phony. Maybe we have no right to expect usable return addresses from Usenet and CSNet (although I would contest even that premise), but certainly places like Columbia and CMU (to name two places where this has happened to me) ought to be able to munge any headers they fling out onto the Arpanet to reflect a valid Arpanet address, and NOT some bogus internal network address. Xerox's Grapevine software is very clever this way, so that insiders don't have to wade through @PARC-MAXC.ARPA, but outsiders do. Below is an example of the sort of thing I'm talking about: --Bruce ---------------------------------------------------------------- The message sent by Hamilton.ES at 27-Feb-84 14:53:47 PST could not be delivered to the following recipients because they were rejected by the MTP server "Maxc". The reason given was: Sorry, I never heard of an ARPA domain named "cmu-psy-a" shrager@cmu-psy-a.ARPA Original msg header being replied to: Received: from SUMEX-AIM.ARPA by PARC-MAXC.ARPA; 27 FEB 84 13:50:19 PST Return-path: <@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA:shrager@cmu-psy-a> Redistributed: Xerox1100UsersGroup^.PA Received: from CMU-CS-PT by SUMEX-AIM.ARPA with TCP; Mon 27 Feb 84 13:26:07-PST Received: from CMU-PSY-A by CMU-CS-PT with CMUFTP; 27 Feb 84 16:20:59 EST Date: Mon, 27 Feb 84 16:15:52 EST From: shrager@cmu-psy-a.ARPA Subject: Touch Screen To: 1100users@sumex.ARPA ----------------------------------------------------------------