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In article <1621@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>, lyndon@cs.athabascau.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes:
> randy@rls.UUCP (Randall L. Smith) writes:
>> *    Easily achieved because the first line of a mail or news
>> *    header must begin with "Path:" and the last line of the
>> *    header must be a blank line.
> 
> This is incorrect. There is no "Path:" header defined for RFC822 mail,
> and if one is present, there's no guarantee that it will be the first
> header. The "Path:" header must be present in news articles, but again
> there is no guarantee that it will be the first header, although all
> existing news transports that I'm aware of will place it there.

Quite right.  See my follow up posting with corrections.  I didn't read
the RFC's for this information.  I simply looked at the actual headers of
news and mail.  Mail consistantly has "From " on the first line and news
has "Path:" on the first line, both in the first 5 characters.  My guess
is the RFC's somewhere define this. 

BTW, has anyone had any problem compiling that code?  Just curious.

Cheers!

- randy

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