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Article #4529Re: Survey on damage by mailers.
From: Bob Larson
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1987 19:24
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1987 19:24
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In article <256@irs1.UUCP> rshwake@irs1.UUCP (rshwake) writes:
> I don't know if the original poster's intent was to suggest that
>prepending lines beginning with "From " with ">" constitutes damage.
I don't see how it could be considered anything but damgage.
>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.
This is true in some mail implementations. They should NOT mess with
outgoing messages or messages just passing through, since not everyone
is using such poor software.
> More critically, it would be TOO easy to fake a message from some
>user if such potential delimiters were not masked.
They could just figure out a way to delimit messages without messing
with the text of the message. This isn't even an invertable bogosity.
--
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