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echo: locsysop
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from: Paul Edwards
date: 1997-05-20 20:37:40
subject: Re: UUCP!!!

:  PE> Ah yes, I see that too.  I will be interested to see what happens if
:  PE> someone replies to one of your UUCP messages, whether their software
:  PE> puts in X-comment-to (tin doesn't appear to), and whether your gating
:  PE> software knows about that also.  Otherwise, messages will come out as
:  PE> addressed to "All", but I don't think that's what Alan is talking
:  PE> about.  BFN.  Paul. 

:  Actually, this is the very thing that has concerned me all along with
: newsgroups.  Any gated mail to fido is always addressed to "all".  So you
: don't
: really know a particular message is addressed to you unless you actually read
: ALL the messages.

:  I know many real news readers are threaded, so you can see the chain of
: replies and who started it.  Can this information be used to somehow put in
: the intended "TO" name?  Or is there simply not enough information in the
: message to do this?

You can, if you keep a database containing message-id's and authors.
Otherwise, you need the internet person to use the X-Comment-To line in
their reader.  I expect I will make tin do that before too long, since
I have the source.  But first things first.  First I have to find out why
inews or innd has a core dump after each article that I post!  BFN.  Paul.

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