Amhuxj.331
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utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!eagle!mhuxj!presley
Fri Dec 11 15:27:07 1981
Collapsing Addresses
I'd like to propose that rnews be given the capability to "collapse" the
mailing addresses.  On our systems I've seen addresses such as
   From mhuxh!mhuxj!eagle!mhtsa!ihnss!.....
If a user wants to answer that news item he might use the complete
address if he didn't know that ihnss was directly accessible from
our system.  If rnews on receipt converted that mailing address to
   From ihnss!....
an answer might get there faster.  Of course we'd have to have a
"real" address in the B format to prevent retransmission to one of
the sites through which the news item made its way.

rnews(inews) could have a locally defined set of collapsible addresses.
Another way is to have readnews do the collapsing when it prints the
news item.

	Joe Presley

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