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| | | Be sure to allow someone to have SEVERAL email addresses registered. Sometimes you don't have a lot of control of your From address and it can change depending on the machine setup (for some reason I have no clue, my email sometimes comes as from (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: From-line registration? —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | (...) Did news posts show up that way too? I've seen that pretty commonly on mail, but I don't think I've seen that happen on news postings, have you? I wonder if the From-line comparison and indexing should ignore host names inside a domain just in (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: From-line registration? —Sarah Heacock
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| | | | | | (...) I don't know? I remember the email problems because it gave me problems subscribing/unsubscribing and (occasionally) sending mail messages to certain mailing lists. There was never any problems with news since the news server received from (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: From-line registration? —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) It's going to look for a match on the pair (x,y) where x is the Name field and y is the Email-address field. It'll parse various forms of the From line to get x and y. --Todd (26 years ago, 19-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: From-line registration? —Mike Stanley
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| | | | (...) That's just poor management on your college's part. You should have had a central address you would both "come from" and have mail sent to. There are 3 main Unix boxes here on campus - larry, moe, and curly. I can telnet to any one of them and (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: From-line registration? —Sarah Heacock
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| | | | (...) Perhaps. Note: This was back in 1991 and 1992 on VAXen. (...) In late 1992, I got an account on tamuts and tamsun and I never noticed the same problem with those -- so it may be a VMS thing. Sarah (26 years ago, 19-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: From-line registration? —Mike Stanley
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| | | | (...) Might be. I remember our Vax and VMS quite unfondly. We finally retired it a couple of years ago, I think. (26 years ago, 19-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: From-line registration? — Todd Lehman
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| | | | (...) Wow, there's a blast from the past! -- I think that sounds like my experience too. I just dug these old From lines up from an old Usenet archive from 1989: From: toddl@cat22.CS.WISC.EDU (Todd Lehman) From: toddl@cat24.CS.WISC.EDU (Todd Lehman) (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: From-line registration? —Matthew Miller
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| | | | (...) Hah. Want a real blast? My current job involves migrating Boston University's few remaining VMS systems to Something More Modern. Whoo hoo. I sure get MY fill of typing, lemme tell you. DCL ain't exactly a terse. (26 years ago, 19-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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