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From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: References line (RFC1036)
Message-ID: <11695@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 15 May 89 22:19:08 GMT
References: <62.246A2DCC@jsheese.FIDONET.ORG>
Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae)
Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences
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In article <62.246A2DCC@jsheese.FIDONET.ORG> jeffery@jsheese.FIDONET.ORG (Jeff Sheese) writes:
>In an article of <11 May 89 17:09:22 GMT>, brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
>If RFC1036 were changed to relax the restriction of all the header lines  
>appearing before the blank line, I could be compatible by configuring my  
>editor to place these lines in there automatically.

This is a restriction inherited from RFC-822 mail and is required for
news messages to be treatable as mail.
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