Anpois.103 net.news utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:mhtsa!ihnss!npois!jak Sat Dec 12 21:38:06 1981 re: collapsing mail addresses I support Joe Presley's idea to collapse mail adddresses. However, rather than messing with the "from" line on the news article or providing another field, an alternative approach is to have readnews check the local system's uuname list skipping unnecessary machines in the reply path. e.g. replying to "from a!b!c!d!e!f!user" could be reduced to e!f!user if the local machine knew about e directly. Jim Kutsch (npois!jak; formerly houxf!kutsch) ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.