Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!phri!dasys1!jailbait
From: jailbait@dasys1.UUCP (Richard Segal)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Posting for the rest of us
Message-ID: <4325@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 8 May 88 20:38:30 GMT
References:  <4203@dasys1.UUCP> <259@ateng.UUCP>
Reply-To: jailbait@dasys1.UUCP (Richard Segal)
Followup-To: news.misc
Organization: The Big Electric Cat
Lines: 40
Keywords: pointlessness and commonality
Summary: 50% is GOOD???

In article <259@ateng.UUCP> chip@ateng.UUCP (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
>In article <4203@dasys1.UUCP> jailbait@dasys1.UUCP (Me, of all people) writes:
>>As I think we all know by now, (R)eply NEVER works.

>I get at least 50% success on replies.  Part of it is examining the message
>before I send it.  Sometimes I get stupidities like:
>
>	To: foobar@xyzzy.UNM.EDU.UUCP
>
>which can be fixed before you mail them.
>
>If you can't R)eply, complain to your postmaster!  Making it work (mostly!)
>is his job.
>-- 
>Chip Salzenberg                "chip@ateng.UU.NET" or "codas!ateng!chip"

Well, for me, the biggest problem comes in when the address in the article is
a UUCP address, so the rn mailer auto-paths it differently than it would
should I put the address down as Foobar@faunch.uucp in the to: line.
If the address starts out UUCP then I get 20 or so site path that almost always
HAS to be corrected. With the UUCP address defined by me, the pathing AFTER I
mail the item usually works.

(Did I just make any sense?)

By the way, I got one note (From Eric Raymond) noting that he had no problems
with reply when I had just gotten a eply I had sent him from Soc.Net-People
bounced back to me as undeliverable. I think my reply from within the mailer
(as opposed to RN) got to him.

*Sigh*,
Slack,
Jailbait.


-- 
Richard Segal                                NYU Student, Rev., Looney at Large
Big Electric Cat Public UNIX                      ARPA:SEGAL@ACFCluster.NYU.EDU
..!cmcl2!phri!dasys1!jailbait                        BITNET:SEGAL@NYUACF.bitnet
"Bob", Eris, Norton I, Mal-2, Jailbait.   Doesn't it have a nice ring to it?