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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Who comments out the From_ lines?
Message-ID: <1990Oct21.215709.14022@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 21 Oct 90 21:57:09 GMT
References: <1990Oct21.160918.9684@smsc.sony.com>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
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In article <1990Oct21.160918.9684@smsc.sony.com> dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott) writes:
>When I was using a 4.3BSD machine, I found that mail messages
>containing lines beginning with the word "From " would be
>changed into ">From " by the mail system (it looks like it was
>rmail).
>
  This is done by /bin/mail during the final delivery of the mail
to your mailbox.  It is done quite crudely, so that valid text lines
in the message are also changed at times

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  Northern Illinois Univ.
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