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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: "Binary"/international text in mail
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Date: Wed, 29-Oct-86 14:05:23 EST
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Posted: Wed Oct 29 14:05:23 1986
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> Actually, the mail transport system should not care about "From "s in
> things.  When it gets to the far end, IF it is being delivered to a
> mailbox that used "\nFrom " to delimit messages, then the far end has
> to worry about this...

I thought about this a little bit, and decided not to do it on utzoo.  Why?
Because it would mean that mail reaching our neighbors through us would
have at least two "From " lines on the front, where it now has one "From "
and one or more ">From ", and I am really not sure how their mailers would
react to this.  Please don't tell me how they *should* react; that is not
the issue.  The current situation is a botch and a blemish, but at least
people have pretty much learned to deal with it.  The various mailers find
it difficult to guess return addresses as it is, and often get it wrong;
I really question the wisdom of introducing a new source of variability
in header format, however noble the motives.
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry