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From: campbell@maynard.BSW.COM (Larry Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers
Subject: Re: Trouble with From: lines
Message-ID: <772@maynard.BSW.COM>
Date: Fri, 5-Dec-86 23:34:31 EST
Article-I.D.: maynard.772
Posted: Fri Dec  5 23:34:31 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 6-Dec-86 03:42:06 EST
References: <597@cullvax.UUCP> <1353@munnari.oz> <112@piaget.UUCP>
Reply-To: campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell)
Organization: The Boston Software Works, Inc.
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In article <112@piaget.UUCP> jc@piaget.UUCP (John Cornelius, System Guru) writes:
>While all that you claim may indeed be reasonable to you, please note 
>that many of us do not have the option of implementing a mailer that is
>not supported by the equipment or software vendor.  Even for those of us
>who do have access to sources and/or considerable support talent, there is
>considerable time and effort involved in converting from one standard to
>another.  It is also the case that the learning curve is often flatter than
>we would wish.  ...

As Fred Avolio pointed out, the solution is readily available.  The "smail"
package, recently posted to mod.sources, is an upward-compatible uucp mailer
replacement that does All The Right Things.  I don't think it's too much
to ask a system administrator to install a free, working, easily available
software package, when doing so helps bring us a tiny step closer to
standardization in an area that sorely needs it.  (Not to mention that
the routing function smail provides is so big an improvement over vanilla
uucp you'll wonder how you ever lived without it...)
-- 
Larry Campbell				     The Boston Software Works, Inc.
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