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From: bygg@sunic.sunet.se (Johnny Eriksson)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Who comments out the From_ lines?
Message-ID: <2222@sunic.sunet.se>
Date: 22 Oct 90 20:23:48 GMT
References: <1990Oct21.160918.9684@smsc.sony.com> <8134@gollum.twg.com>
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <8134@gollum.twg.com> david@twg.com (David S. Herron) writes:

) From_ to >From_ conversions are a sendmail-ism, so therefore I
) don't have anything good to say about them ;-).  MMDF, of course,
) does it better by using a non-printable string as the message
) seperator.  You're gauranteed that "^A^A^A^A" doesn't appear
) in messages because RFC-822 doesn't allow for it..

Wrong.  RFC822 allows for all ASCII characters (0.-127. inclusive) to
appear in message bodies.  The same goes for the text on the Subject
line.  "Subject: ^A^A^A^A" is perfectly legal...

--Johnny