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From: schaefer@ogccse.ogc.edu (Barton E. Schaefer)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: Re: Bug in Mush 6.5.5
Message-ID: <4422@ogccse.ogc.edu>
Date: 26 Aug 89 19:28:53 GMT
References: <3380@devon.LNS.PA.US> <7330019@grlab.UUCP>
Reply-To: schaefer@ogccse.UUCP (Barton E. Schaefer)
Organization: Oregon Graduate Center, Beaverton, OR
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In article <7330019@grlab.UUCP> scott@grlab.UUCP (Scott Blachowicz) writes:
} It seems to be looking at either the FullName part of the 1st N characters of
} the username...I get mail with headers like this that does the same thing:
}    From: Scott Key <hpubvwa!scottk>
}    To: scott@grlab (Scott Blachowicz)
} 
} Note that his username is 'scottk' not 'scott', but it still comes up as 
}    TO: Scott Blachowicz

A fix for this has been applied and will be available for testing when
the next update to the "mushview" beta goes out.  Efficiency in the
header-summary-generation code constrains us to avoid testing every
From: address against the alternates list, but an additional test of
that list when the current username matches should catch most of the
currently-incorrect cases.  It'll still fail if you use "alts *",
which in effect tells mush that your user name is unique in all the
world.  Those with logins like "argv" can afford such assumptions. ;->
-- 
Bart Schaefer           "And if you believe that, you'll believe anything."
                                                            -- DangerMouse
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