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From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield)
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Subject: Re: Bogus addresses
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Date: 26 Dec 90 19:59:36 GMT
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In-Reply-To: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu's message of 24 Dec 90 02:53:50 GMT

In article <1990Dec24.025350.26945@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher) writes:
   what do the RFC's say about generating unusable addresses?

See RFC822:
     4.4.1.  FROM / RESENT-FROM
        This field contains the identity of the person(s) who wished
        this message to be sent.

Section 5 of RFC1123 discusses well-behaved mail systems.  The
attributes that are made explicit for mail gateways and mailing lists
and assumed implicitly for Internet mail include headers that are
"effective and useful for sending replies."