Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!cca.ucsf.edu!wet!epsilon From: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: .edu.UUCP Message-ID: <635@wet.UUCP> Date: 3 Oct 89 11:14:56 GMT References: <3477@midway.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> Reply-To: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott) Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco Lines: 17 In article <3477@midway.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) writes: >One good reason for doing it would be because your system manager is an >incompetent bozo who's set things up so the "From:" line is nonsense. > >There are lots of sites out there that have a ".edu.UUCP" suffix on this >line; replies to articles from them will invariably bounce unless you spot >it in time and edit the address. Places for news administrators to check for spurious .UUCPs: (B news) MYDOMAIN setting (rn source) common.h (3 of them) If you don't have source, you can redefine NEWSHEADER and CANCELHEADER in /usr/lib/news/rn/INIT using -E /usr/lib/news/rn/Pnews.header (near the end)