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From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Subject: Re: Who pays the bill?
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 90 04:04:24 GMT
Message-ID: <1990Aug02.040424.20586@looking.on.ca>
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> <1990Aug1.201232.23136@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1990Aug1.230858.3264@iwarp.intel.com> <EMV.90Aug1202214@urania.math.lsa.umich.edu>

I think that new versions should do the right thing and drop the user name
from the path and make it unusable as a reply path.  It's tough, but USENET
can't stay backwards compatible to A news all its life.

There are some programs that probably would refuse to feed an article to a
site with the same name as the user who posted the article.

But there are also programs that 'properly' ignore that final field, so perhaps
the best entry there is something like $$USER$$, for the time being.

(This would allow programs to start treating the whole path as a list of
sites, as $$USER$$ is not going to be a site name.
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473
