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Weird displays when no From: line

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From: Kyle Jones
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 16:25
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David Grabiner writes:
 > VM 5.31 (beta), Emacs 18.58.7 on a Sparcstation.
 > 
 > When a letter has a From line with no colon but not From: line, the From
 > line is not displayed, and the buffer begins with a To: line with no
 > sender displayed.

There's nothing strange about this.  VM displays only headers by
default and the UUCP From line is not a header.  If there was no
From header VM could not display it, so the display began with
the next availble selected header.

 > This is confusing enough as it is, but it has already been discussed.
 > 
 > However, I recently received a letter with no From: line and a From line
 > that had a continuation on the next line.  The visible part of the
 > buffer began with the continuation of the From line, which was
 > unintelligible; I thought I had somehow tickled the narrow-toregion bug.

I suppose I could make VM smarter about dealing with this crud,
But you never get anythign fixed by endlessly tolerating broken
and misconfigured systems.
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Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 11:25:14 -0500
From: kyle@uunet.uu.net (Kyle Jones)
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Subject: Weird displays when no From: line
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