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unbalanced parentheses after "To" makes for trouble

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From: Kyle Jones
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 00:03
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Gilbert Harman writes:
 > Using vm-mail, I inadvertantly sent a message with
 > unbalanced parentheses in the To line.
 > 
 >  To: (Cog Studies Program
 > 
 > the actual people getting the message, including myself,
 > being listed on the Bcc: line.
 > 
 > When I next tried to read my mail using vm, I got an error
 > message to the effect that the variable "address-start" was
 > undefined and I couldn't read new mail (including the Bcc
 > copy to myself and the various bounced copies coming from
 > other machines).

Hmmm, that's bad.  This doesn't sound like VM code, but rather
something from rfc822.el.  I'll probably have to stop using the
particular routine involved.
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From: kyle@wendy-fate.uu.net (Kyle Jones)
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 20:03:17 -0400
Message-ID: <9208260003.AA10363@wendy-fate.UU.NET>
Subject: unbalanced parentheses after "To" makes for trouble
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