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Aunc.1253 net.news utzoo!decvax!duke!unc!smb Sat Oct 3 23:03:08 1981 Re: news etc. (cbosgd.113 followup) I'm a little surprised by ecc's complaint -- I find it easier to weed out the junk when I can see that something is on arms-d (and hence a flame to be delayed if I'm on a slow terminal), rather than being from FOO@BAR. Anyway, I have no complaints about the current scheme (to be sure, I *was* one of the people who suggested it....)

Another point: I suspect that the "forgeries" have solved another problem, to wit people on Usenet not getting many articles that originate on Usenet. I'm pretty sure the problem involved netnews (at least the original Duke versions) not rebroadcasting certain items because the author's site appeared to have seen it already. That is, if I send something in to a non-digest list like INFO-CPM, it shows as being from "decvax!duke!unc!smb@Berkeley". Netnews, having been designed for a uucp- only environment, says 'Aha! This article came from some user "smb@Berkeley", at site "unc", via "duke" and "decvax"' -- and won't transmit it to any of them.

Perhaps the reply part of the problem could be solved by generating a "Reply-to" field with the author's name -- thus, "reply" will get it to him/her, while "Reply" will submit a followup article.

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