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From: vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.mail.headers
Subject: Re: what do _YOU_ mean by "all routing"??
Message-ID: <33@volition.dec.com>
Date: 13 Aug 88 01:09:44 GMT
References: <676@bacchus.DEC.COM> <881@vsi1.UUCP>  <3674@palo-alto.DEC.COM>  <3732@palo-alto.DEC.COM>  <4695@b-tech.UUCP>
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In article <4695@b-tech.UUCP> zeeff@b-tech.UUCP (Jon Zeeff) writes:
# [...] If using news return paths are really
# the problem, you might consider some method of attempting to identify
# them - something like "this path is *really* bad, I'm going to
# reroute it" or "this looks like a news reply via the path line".

Please don't!

If you see a lot of replies using news paths, try to identify the sites which
originate them and try to get them to fix their news software.  NetNews and
RN both suggest in their documentation that you use the "From:" line for
replies rather than the "Path:" line, and sites which don't do this should
be educated.  NetNews (vnews/readnews) will use /usr/lib/news/mailpaths,
which can be pointed at a smart host (i.e., which does routing on the next-hop
if they don't speak to it directly); the generic solution is to use smail,
which can also be trivially configured to use a smart-host.  (RN would need
smail, sadly).  Smail is freely available, check the comp.unix.sources
archives.
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