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Article #344Re: user-editable mail headers
From: Kenneth Almquist
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 1984 15:30
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 1984 15:30
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I often use my nickname (gregbo) in the From: field and use my real name in the Sender: field. It's not to be fraudulent, just to have a little fun. What you may not realize is that you are having fun in a way that violates RFC 822. (I sometimes wonder whether anyone in Arpaland has ever read that document.) RFC 822 requires that all addresses contain at signs, as your mail program should know but apparently doesn't. Therefore, when your letter arrived here, I had to manually edit the header to replace From: Grebo with From: GDS@MIT-XX.ARPA So nobody on the USENET side of the gateway got to see your little joke. Kenneth Almquist
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site hou3c.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!ka From: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist) Newsgroups: net.mail.headers Subject: Re: user-editable mail headers Message-ID: <775@hou3c.UUCP> Date: Thu, 23-Aug-84 11:30:43 EDT Article-I.D.: hou3c.775 Posted: Thu Aug 23 11:30:43 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 24-Aug-84 04:40:09 EDT References: <773@hou3c.UUCP> Organization: Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 17