Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 15:03:47 -0600 From: "Jan L. Peterson" <jlp@Part.NET> To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: isp@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: not-for-mail headers Message-ID: <199807092103.PAA21015@loa.part.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 09 Jul 1998 13:37:14 PDT." <199807092037.NAA21082@hub.freebsd.org> References: <199807092037.NAA21082@hub.freebsd.org>
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> what does the "not-for-mail" header mean? It means that you should not use the Path: header from a Usenet message in order to get back to the sender. The Path header shows the path that the message took to get to you (what news servers it passed through). In the olden days, e-mail addresses looked like this, too (bang paths, we called 'em). Sometimes, people would send mail to them, assuming that it was a valid path for uucp-based mail to get back to the author. This was often a bad assumption. not-for-mail was appended at some point so that the mail would bounce and the sender would get the idea that the Path header was "not for mail". Now, isn't that more than you wanted to know? :-) -jan- -- Jan L. Peterson PartNET tel. +1 801 581 1118 Senior Systems Admin 423 Wakara Way, Suite 216 fax +1 801 581 1785 jlp@part.net Salt Lake City, UT 84108 http://www.part.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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