Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!deimos.cis.ksu.edu!mccall!tp From: tp@mccall.com Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Question about From: lines Message-ID: <3007.268b1849@mccall.com> Date: 29 Jun 90 08:58:48 GMT References: <14423@ucsd.Edu> <267E85F1.33B4@tct.uucp> <14495@ucsd.Edu> <1990Jun25.153424.27594@chinet.chi.il.us> <3001.2688df6b@mccall.com> <1412.2689d9b8@dcs.simpact.com> Organization: The McCall Pattern Co., Manhattan, KS, USA Lines: 20 In article <1412.2689d9b8@dcs.simpact.com>, jeh@dcs.simpact.com writes: > In article <3001.2688df6b@mccall.com>, tp@mccall.com writes: >> (Aside: ALWAYS use a signature, because From: lines DO get munged. > > This will work until some well-meaning fool (there are always a few around) > decides to write a new RFC, and corresponding AI-like software, to recognize > signatures and change addresses in them. "If you are sending the message > via a uucp link, you must change any RFC822 address that appears in the > signature into bang form." > > Don't laugh. Someone already tried to write the software. OK, I know about smilies :-) and frownies :-(, but how do you do a weepie (lots and lots of them). If I didn't know Jamie, I'd think he was pulling my leg. On the other hand, I've met people as dumb as whoever he's talking about, and some of them were even able to write software... -- Terry Poot The McCall Pattern Company (uucp: ...!rutgers!ksuvax1!mccall!tp) 615 McCall Road (800)255-2762, in KS (913)776-4041 Manhattan, KS 66502, USA