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Re: From-line registration?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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Mon, 19 Oct 1998 13:33:16 GMT
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sarah@eskimo.com (Perhaps a Princess....) writes:
> 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 @eskimo.com and sometimes
> @mail.eskimo.com
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> In College, I had the options of:
> @venus.tamu.edu, @summa.tamu.edu, @rigel.tamu.edu, @(two more I can
> not remember off head right now)
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 case; it's already got to ignore certain things like
backslash-escaped quotation marks, so that all of the following map to the
same thing:
"name" <login@host.domain.xyz> -> ("name", "login@host.domain.xyz")
name <login@host.domain.xyz> -> ("name", "login@host.domain.xyz")
login@host.domain.xyz (name) -> ("name", "login@host.domain.xyz")
('name' might contain a pair of double-quotes in the user's news-
configuration but show up as backslash-escaped double-quotes in the From
line.)
Possible transformations (for comparison and indexing only) include:
1. Extraction of name & email addr from ( ) and < > forms
2. Conversion to lowercase [probably not necessary]
3. Removal or conversion of backslash-escaped special characters
such as double-quotes
4. Removal of anything between \@ and \.\s+\.\s+$ in email address
(in other words the host/machine/subnet name)
5. ISO-8859-1 conversion ("=?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8?=l" => "Søl")
--Todd
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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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| 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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