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From: sob@watson.bcm.tmc.edu (Stan Barber)
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Subject: Re: Preservation of posting date with smail2.5 and older-style headers
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Date: 3 May 88 05:10:02 GMT
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In article <8995@e.ms.uky.edu> david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) writes:
>
>What I'd suggest to turn the From_'s and >From_'s into "Comment: From_"
>lines (insert "Comment:" in front of the existing line.  Possibly also
>with the local host name as part of the comment line?).  THEN you
>use the date from the last >From_ line to fill in missing Date: fields.

This should really be X-Comment: if anything. It might also be possible to
change these into Received: lines. Perhaps the getdate subroutine from 
netnews could be coaxed into doing this.

Yours for RFC-822 compliance,


Stan           internet: sob@tmc.edu          Baylor College of Medicine
Olan           uucp: {rice,killer,hoptoad}!academ!sob
Barber         Opinions expressed are only mine.