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?