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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Strange Header
Message-ID: <1990Sep29.221734.4086@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Sep27.211815.16843@mccc.uucp>
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 90 22:17:34 GMT

In article <1990Sep27.211815.16843@mccc.uucp> pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) writes:
>This message was posted with Pnews.  As I look at the screen, I see that
>the "From:" line has my domain address and the "Sender:" line is empty. 
>But when you read it, the "Sender:" line will say 
>	Sender: pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg)
>	
>I can't find anything on my machine that has "mccc.uucp" in it, but
>obviously I'm not looking in the right place(s).  Can anyone tell me
>where to look?

It's a combination of things inside inews.  An empty header line is, in
general, a violation of RFC1036; it may or may not be legal mail, but it
is not legal news.  So inews is filling it in for you.
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