PE>> The "From" field and INTL line are also used by people to reply
PE>> to messages.  Doesn't mean you have to mess up the message-text
PE>> bit of the message to do so.  That's what we write programs for.

ml>> you forget that not all moderators are sysops... without access
ml>> to a kludge key to turn them on or off while reading the messages,
ml>> they mean nothing at

 PE> Are you claiming that end-users have no way of knowing where
 PE> netmail originated from, because the INTL is hidden?  Same problem,
 PE> same solution.

no, i'm not claiming that at all... netmail does not require an origin
line... many people, end users especially, don't care about that part as
they will generally already know where the individual who sent the
email/netmal is... how? via exchanges in echomail (hehehe)

in any case, there are/were reasons for altering the origin line when
gating from one FTN to another. BlackHole is one FTNFTN tosser
that i'm aware of. it does this altering and has done it since it was
developed. it's part of the docs that BH was designed around. i'm not sure
where all the spec came from but i know that some of it is covered in the
old, defunct Echopol document... i'm sure that there is also a FSC that
convers it but i've no time to research it further at the moment...

)\/(ark