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Article #4526Re: Survey on damage by mailers.
From: rshwake
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1987 23:41
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1987 23:41
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I don't know if the original poster's intent was to suggest that prepending lines beginning with "From " with ">" constitutes damage. Since the "From " string is used as a delimiter, separating one message from another, SOME means is required to prevent lines beginning with such a string from signaling the start of a new message. More critically, it would be TOO easy to fake a message from some user if such potential delimiters were not masked. Ray Shwake IRS User Assistance Branch
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!ukma!nrl-cmf!cmcl2!brl-adm!umd5!irs1!rshwake From: rshwake@irs1.UUCP (rshwake) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Survey on damage by mailers. Message-ID: <256@irs1.UUCP> Date: Tue, 24-Nov-87 18:41:26 EST Article-I.D.: irs1.256 Posted: Tue Nov 24 18:41:26 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 28-Nov-87 07:49:36 EST References: <408@minya.UUCP> Organization: Internal Revenue Service, Washington, DC Lines: 12 Summary: Prepending "From" with ">" done for security reasons