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From: bd@SDE.HP.COM (Bob Desinger)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: In-Reply-To header field
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Date: 25 Oct 88 18:35:53 GMT
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> So, it looks like it's illegal.  But, commonly violated.

This is The Recurring Theme in the rfc822 world.  The moral of the
story is that you should try to accomodate other people's (broken)
formats in your mail agent---you have control over your agent, but
you'll never be able to get the rest of the world to change theirs.

-- bd