Re: user-editable mail headers

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From: Stephen Wolff
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 1984 01:57

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Can anyone explicate an honest reason for editing the From: line of a
message?  It is certainly not possible in our mailer without exercising
privilege, and I had blithely assumed that to be universally the case.

I should hate to have to regard every message as a potential forgery.

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From: steve@BRL-BMD.ARPA (Stephen Wolff)
Newsgroups: net.mail.headers
Subject: Re:  user-editable mail headers
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Date: Sat, 18-Aug-84 21:57:27 EDT
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