Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!cica!ctrsol!emory!stiatl!pda From: pda@stiatl.UUCP (Paul D. Anderson) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Re: Tired of bogus subject lines? Message-ID: <6852@stiatl.UUCP> Date: 12 Sep 89 01:57:07 GMT References: <7921@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <1650@unocss.UUCP> <7194@rpi.edu> Organization: Sales Technologies Inc., "Where Time Stands Still" Lines: 15 Has anyone gotten mail messages from Spaf generated by this (perhaps forged) mailing program? I have an associate that claimed last week to get some messages from him (before the 'posting'). How possible is it to have mail messages forged (as opposed to news messages)? Re: the contents of the Subject: colon field, the usenet RFC does not specify the *contents* of that field. It does say that whenever there are unresolved issues, you should refer to RFC 822, the internet mail standard. So everyone, off to the RFC archives for further info... paul -- Paul Anderson (w) (404) 841-4000 gatech!stiatl!pda (h) (404) 662-0799