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From: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist)
Newsgroups: net.mail.headers
Subject: Re:  user-editable mail headers
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Date: Thu, 23-Aug-84 11:30:43 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 23 11:30:43 1984
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	I often use my nickname (gregbo) in the From: field and use my real
	name in the Sender: field.  It's not to be fraudulent, just to have a
	little fun.

What you may not realize is that you are having fun in a way that
violates RFC 822.  (I sometimes wonder whether anyone in Arpaland
has ever read that document.)  RFC 822 requires that all addresses
contain at signs, as your mail program should know but apparently
doesn't.  Therefore, when your letter arrived here, I had to manually
edit the header to replace
	From: Grebo
with
	From: GDS@MIT-XX.ARPA
So nobody on the USENET side of the gateway got to see your little
joke.
				Kenneth Almquist