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randy@rls.UUCP (Randall L. Smith) writes:

>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. 

The followup posting was also incorrect (see my second folowup
to it :-)

"The RFC's" don't define the headers in the manner you allude to.
The "Path:" header is defined in the NNTP RFC. That definition places
no restrictions on where it is located in the message headers. It can
be located anywhere, so depending on it being the first header is
incorrect.

The "From_" header is not defined in any of the RFC's, although
references are made to it in RFC976. The "From_" header is specific
to the UUCP *transport*, and *some* UNIX mail UA's. However there
is no *requirement* that that header be present. For example, all
of my incoming mail does not have a "From_" header - it gets stripped
out during delivery into my mailbox. (I use MH under smail3.1 on a
Sparcstation.)
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