Re: Yet another killfile question. . .

Cthulhu The Old (cthulhu@kaiwan.com)
Thu, 27 Jun 1996 22:35:59 -0700

On an article posted to yarn.list on Wed, 26 Jun 1996 16:17:57 +1000,
Kirk.Davies@pobox.com (Kirk Davies) wrote thusly about
"Re: Yet another killfile question. . .":
>
>In article <IyUsxob33bJZ089yn@kaiwan.com>,
>cthulhu@kaiwan.com (Cthulhu The Old) wrote:
>
>> I'm no stranger to SOUPER and its killfile ability, but I was wondering if
>> someone had found a way to kill messages that have no Message-ID header. In
>> one of the newsgroups I read, some a**hole has decided to post binaries with
>> no Message-ID header, which of course SOUPER downloads but YARN rejects. Is
>> there any way to kill said messages?
>
>Are you sure about this? It is my understanding that news servers either
>won't accept articles without a Message-ID or will generate a Message-ID
>if it is missing.

Yeah. . .actually, it's still happening. And not only am I downloading
messages from KAIWAN's newsserver, but from AT&T's server and still get
messages rejected because they have no Message-ID header. I thought it
might be SOUPER's fault (I'm using the Windoze'95 version) but I
would've noticed on the other packets I download for other users
(multiple accounts, multiple users.)

>I also don't think that such messages would be propagated to other servers.

They are. . .don't know how, and since I don't get a chance to check the
message headers, I can't tell how it is that he/she/it is getting away
with it. =-(

>Are the messages in question maybe from a mailing list?

I really doubt it, but again, see my reply above. The last part, I
mean.

>--
>Kirk Davies <Kirk.Davies@pobox.com> Electronic Adventurer, etc.
>
> "Boldly going where angels fear to tread."

BTW, above I said something about multiple accounts. I have one with
KAIWAN and one with AT&T. As of right now, I've created different
directories so that I can keep different CONFIG files and when a reply
goes out, the correct From: header is added to the message. I wish
there was a way to configure multiple accounts and that Yarn would ask
one which From: header it should use. That would really make it easier
to handle the e-mail from the two different accounts. I think! =-)

Cthulhu

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