Newsgroups: news.software.b
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Who pays the bill?
Message-ID: <1990Aug1.161201.19243@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <Jul.30.17.57.18.1990.9079@turbo.bio.net> <3275.26b54aab@mccall.com> <1990Jul31.211125.11451@mlb.semi.harris.com> <818@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 90 16:12:01 GMT

In article <818@toaster.SFSU.EDU> eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes:
>... Path: lines DO NOT WORK FOR REPLY.
>Maybe for intra-Eunet traffic, but not in general.  It doesn't
>make sense in North America...

On the contrary, often it does.  Not if an alternative is available,
of course, but the odds are still better than even that a Path line
*will* work as a reply address.  Yes, in North America.  I speak as
someone whose mailer didn't understand @ addresses until quite recently.
-- 
The 486 is to a modern CPU as a Jules  | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
Verne reprint is to a modern SF novel. |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry
