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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Survey on damage by mailers.
Message-ID: <8991@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Nov-87 15:19:11 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 25 15:19:11 1987
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> Actually, the "From " line at the beginning of the file is a misfeature
> (in this day and age ...

Unfortunately, when Unix mail got RFC822ized (at Berkeley, I believe), it
did not occur to the people doing it that RFC822 format and the old Unix
format ("From " lines at the beginning) were two *different* formats and
that they should convert between them rather than smushing them together.
There is just no excuse for having the sender's address appear in two
different places in two different forms.  (Well, actually, nowadays it can
be handy to have a domainized address in "From:" and a bang form in "From ",
but that is a kludge if there ever was one.)
-- 
Those who do not understand Unix are |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
condemned to reinvent it, poorly.    | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry