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From: Ralf <ralf@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
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Subject: RE: E-mail whinge!
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> 1) Your gateway doesn't work properly - not our fault.

True. Your gateway should be setting 'Sender:' to britdisc, not 'From:'

> 3) A .sig file is a mail client-specific device which is probably
> limited to UNIX mail clients. 

Very few mailers don't allow you to have some kind of signature.

I could probably force britdisc mail to add some kind automatic signature at
the end of each mail, but for most people, this really is unneeded.

> >The serious point is this: owing to some interaction between the
> >Warwick list server and the Reuters e-mail gateway, Britdisc postings
> >arrive in my mail system with "owner-britdisc" in the "From" field.
> >Details of the original sender are completely absent from the message,
> >the header and the 1.5 KB of IP routing junk that comes with each
> >Britdisc mail.

I really doubt there is 1.5Kb of routing junk. There should probably be
about 6 lines, maybe more if your mail is spooled somewhere on the way. The
Warwick servers connect directly to the SMTP port of the target host, it's
something at your end which is forwarding the mail around Reuters that's
causing the problem.

However, there IS an archive of BritDisc at
http://www.csv.warwick.ac.uk/~suaaz/BritDisc/ which contains all the
articles in their complete form. You can always look there to get the
information your machine is removing.
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 _\__ \   _\__ \   / \      / \\__/ |             Ranulf Doswell             |
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