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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Who comments out the From_ lines?
Message-ID: <1990Oct23.142320.20180@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 23 Oct 90 14:23:20 GMT
References: <1990Oct21.160918.9684@smsc.sony.com> <8134@gollum.twg.com>
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
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In article <8134@gollum.twg.com> david@twg.com (David S. Herron) writes:

>The System V stuff looks for the pattern:
>/^From user <ctime> remote from <blah>$/

>Instead of just "From ".  Given that they're doing something stupid
>by seperating messages with things which could naturally appear in
>the text, this is a pretty good compromise.

On the contrary, this pattern is going to appear in the body if you
mail a saved mail message, a mailbox file, or if you forward a message
from a mailer like ELM that sends the whole thing verbatim with new
headers above it. 

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us