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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.mail,net.mail.headers
Subject: Re: Do you rewrite "From:" lines?
Message-ID: <7194@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 6-Oct-86 15:50:55 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  6 15:50:55 1986
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References: <358@tc-jeff.fluke.UUCP>, <736@ncc.UUCP>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Clearly, the way this mess *should* have been handled in the first place
was to recognize that the old (I mean OLD) Unix header, which was a pile
of lines looking, say, like this:

	From uucp 22:22 Sept 16
	From uucp 22:20 Sept 16 remote from decvax
	From uucp 21:11 Sept 16 remote from ucbvax
	From joey 09:13 Sept 15 remote from foobar

is in fact a different way of writing:

	From: decvax!ucbvax!foobar!joey
	Received: here at 22:22 Sept 16
	Received: by decvax at 22:20 Sept 16
	Received: by ucbvax at 21:11 Sept 16
	Received: by foobar at 09:13 Sept 15

or something along those lines.  A message which contains "From " lines
should not contain a "From:" line, and vice-versa.  Software that talks
between places that speak "From:" (Arpanet; high-level user interfaces)
and places that speak "From " (low-level UUCPNet mail transmission) should
convert.  This would eliminate or reduce many, many problems.

Unfortunately, it's far too late for that.
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry