From: Crys Rides <crys@eith.biostr.washington.edu>
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 08:22:48 PST
To: tribble@xanadu.COM (E. Dean Tribble)
Subject: Politics of Rmailers
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>>>>> On Sat, 9 Jan 93 23:32:18 PST, tribble@xanadu.com (E. Dean Tribble) said:

E.> 	 Date: Sat, 9 Jan 93 17:52:01 -0800
E.> 	 From: uunet!netcom.com!norm (Norman Hardy)

E.> 	 I can imagine a system administrator choosing to require that
E.> 	 all mail originating from his machine include a signature that 
E.> 	 correctly identifies the local name of the sender.

E.> I can imagine it, but none exist.  This is mostly because the From:
                          ^^^^^^^^^^^
E.> field is supplied by the mailer and satisfies that requirement,
E.> whereas requiring things in teh body of the mail message goes against
E.> the grain of how the systems are used.
*Bzzzzt* Wrong answer, thank you for playing.  The public access bbs
system running out of Chapel Hill, automatically appends the same signature
to all outgoing messages, and other sites are considering the same measures.

CrysRides