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Re: UCB Mail tries to be too smart

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From: Robert A. Agnew
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1989 20:48
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In article <918@ur-cc.UUCP> msir@cc.rochester.edu (Mark Sirota) writes:
>I ask the net: Is this true?  Do "most Internet sites use RFC822 as their
>*internal* mail representation also"?

Speaking for myself -- Sure We Do!!!!!

Just try wirting the nameserver files for a sizeable site (2000 mail users)
that doesn't and you might agree. Otherwise one tends to have the kind of 
problems that your're having.
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Message-ID: <326@trwrc.UUCP>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!hplabs!hp-sdd!trwrc!agnew
References: <885@ur-cc.UUCP> <888@ur-cc.UUCP> <918@ur-cc.UUCP>

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From: agnew@trwrc.UUCP (Robert A. Agnew)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: UCB Mail tries to be too smart
Message-ID: <326@trwrc.UUCP>
Date: 22 Feb 89 20:48:15 GMT
References: <885@ur-cc.UUCP> <888@ur-cc.UUCP> <918@ur-cc.UUCP>
Reply-To: agnew@trwrc.UUCP (Robert A. Agnew)
Organization: TRW/MEAD San Diego, Ca.
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