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From: steed@TECHUNIX.BITNET (Ze'ev Shtadler)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: line breaks in an address confuses Mush
Message-ID: <8909121243.AA15988@techunix.bitnet>
Date: 12 Sep 89 14:43:44 GMT
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Reply-To: Ze'ev Shtadler <steed%TECHUNIX.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
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I noticed a problem when I tried to relpy the following letter:

--- Forwarded mail from TeX-Euro, Distribution, List, for, Eropean, TeX, Users,
<TEX-EURO@DHDURZ1.bitnet>

>From TEX-EURO@DHDURZ1.bitnet Tue Sep 12 13:30:07 1989
Received: by techunix.bitnet (sendmail 5.61/7.2a)
        id AA13220; Tue, 12 Sep 89 14:30:02 +0300
Message-Id: <8909121130.AA13220@techunix.bitnet>
Received: from TAUNIVM.TAU.AC.IL for TEX-EURO@DHDURZ1.BITNET with BSMTP (1.0);
        Tue, 12 Sep 89 11:29:59 GMT
Received: by TAUNIVM (Mailer R2.03B) id 4544; Tue, 12 Sep 89 13:28:15 IST
Date:         Tue, 12 Sep 89 10:07:00 N
Reply-To: TeX-Euro  Distribution List for Eropean TeX Users
              <TEX-EURO@DHDURZ1.bitnet>
Sender: TeX-Euro  Distribution List for Eropean TeX Users
              <TEX-EURO@DHDURZ1.bitnet>
From: VANSOEST@HENUT5.bitnet
Subject:      query: Use of printer-resident PostScript fonts
To: Ze'ev Shtadler <STEED@techunix.technion.ac.il>

[Contents Deleted.]

--- End of forwarded message from TeX-Euro, Distribution, List, for, Eropean,
TeX, Users, <TEX-EURO@DHDURZ1.bitnet>

As you can see in the "End of forwarded message" line above, Mush
treats the "Sender:" and "Reply-To:" headers as containing multiple
addresses:  "TeX-Euro, Distribution, List, for, Eropean, TeX, Users,
<TEX-EURO@DHDURZ1.bitnet>".  It seems that Mush treats line
continuation as an implicit comma - therefore forces the sender
name to be a list of senders.  I checked UCB-Mail and didn't find
that feature/bug there.  I don't know much about the mail standards,
but I don't see any harm in NOT inserting the implicit comma.

                                        Ze'ev.

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Ze'ev Shtadler.                  ARPANET: steed%techunix.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu
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Technion, Israel Institute of Technology,                BITNET: steed@techunix
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