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Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 19:37:47 -0400 (AST)
From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To: Jim Riffle <rif@ns.kconline.com>
cc: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Returned mail: Host unknown (fwd)
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On Sun, 19 Jan 1997, Jim Riffle wrote:

> On Sun, 19 Jan 1997, Snob Art Genre wrote:
> 
> > > That is a good question, I knowtice at the end it says the sender was
> > > "www@rif.kconline.com" which cannot be true.  That is one of my boxes and
> > > I don't have a "www" user defined.  The only thing I really have done
> > > today was went and filled out that new server that fellow had created.  I
> > > would be willing to bet it is his script which mailed this message..
> > 
> > Hmm, I didn't find where it said that -- perhaps you received your own
> > copy of this mail?  On the copy I received, the sender was
> > "www@narcissus.ml.org", and I do not have a www user defined either.  I
> > also filled out a form on the web, I think at www.hub.org or something
> > like that.  Is that what you mean? 
> 
> Now this is weird!
> Must be sendmail just appending the domain name from the host the message
> was read at..  Here it said my host, and on your machine your host..  So,
> I am not really sure were that message came from.  I did not get a copy of
> that message, so perhaps it isn't that script at all.  If it was that
> script, I would assume I would have gotten a bounce like you did as well.
> So, I don't think that is what it was, sorry about that.  seeing my host
> is there threw me off.
>

	Guess I should follow some of these threads a bit more closely...

	The script at www.hub.org/~scrappy that processes the survey
currently does *nothing* except for log the results.  In the future,
it will send a mail message back to the submitter with a password in it
so that you are able to go back and update your entry, but that is the
*only* use of the email address...