Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!iuvax!bsu-cs!dhesi From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: "From:" vs. "From_" Summary: really about gateways mangling From: headers Message-ID: <4999@bsu-cs.UUCP> Date: 7 Dec 88 16:29:27 GMT References:<1297@ucsd.EDU> <1299@ucsd.EDU> <2379@ficc.uu.net> <152@cctb.mn.org> Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana Lines: 12 In article <152@cctb.mn.org> randy@cctb.UUCP (Randy Orrison) writes: >Why should gateways mess with the from line? Gateways don't know how much you know about the originating network, so they mangle the From: header. If domains such as .BITNET and .DECNET were recognized by Internet software, most of this mangling would no longer be needed. What we really need are Originally-From: and Originally-To: headers that nobody, not even gateways, will ever, ever change. -- Rahul Dhesi UUCP: !{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi