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In article <1990Dec14.145021.2116@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:

> If you want to send mail to 'ucbvax' and have an unrepliable 'From: ' header,
>that is your choice.  All you need do is negotiate a uucp connection to
>ucbvax, and pay your own long distance charges.

In practice, this is seldom possible.  How, for example, would I getting a
link to the IBM hosts on BITNET where my users want to exchange mail?
I suspect that if it were not for the internet, a standardized modem-based
mail exchange facility would have been developed years ago.

>But if you prefer to use
>the services of another host to do your relaying you have a responsibility
>to make sure your headers conform to the standards of that relay host.  And
>if you fail to meet that obligation, the relay host has every right to
>correct those header to ensure that they do meet its standards.

No one is complaing about how the package is bundled in transport, just
about how it looks when delivered (and only one portion of the transport
knows when delivery is complete).

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us