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From: coolidge@cs.uiuc.edu (John Coolidge)
Subject: Re: Who pays the bill?
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towfiq@interlan.Interlan.COM (Mark Towfigh) writes:
>On the flip side, has anyone else noticed that many people these days
>are putting their FQDN into the Path: header?  I'll bet if everyone
>who could do this did, we would see from the Path: many easy ways to
>send reply mail.

We don't have the option --- our USENET name _is_ our FQDN. We don't
do UUCP, just NNTP. Therefore, we're not allowed (according to our
map coordinator) to have a map entry. Therefore, we can't register
a USENET short name which will have a reasonable chance of staying
unique. Therefore, our USENET name is our FQDN.

I'd just as soon have a map entry and a USENET name, and not use my
FQDN in Path: lines. But that doesn't seem to be possible...

--John

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