Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Solution to news dup site names Message-ID: <1988Aug21.045032.15240@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <1445@datapg.MN.ORG> <20246@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <527@vector.UUCP> Date: Sun, 21 Aug 88 04:50:32 GMT In article <527@vector.UUCP> chip@vector.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal) writes: >>Why not just have fully-qualified domain names in the Path: header? > >This breaks crufty, old software which uses "Path" rather than "From" for >mailed responses. Actually, it breaks it only if that site's neighbors do not recognize the fully-qualified form. Unfortunately, there are still a lot of sites that don't. >However, I'm not sure whether this is an argument *for* >or *against* such a change. Against. There are many people who, for one reason or another, not only haven't upgraded their software but *CAN'T*. Cutting them off the net as punishment for their unfortunate circumstances is unacceptable. (No, the availability of public-domain software doesn't solve the problem. Some sites are politically required to run the system "straight out of the box"; others could make changes but don't have anyone competent to do it.) -- Intel CPUs are not defective, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology they just act that way. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu