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kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I) writes:
> gnat@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (Nathan Torkington) writes:
> > > non-compliant.
> > 
> > RFC 1036 (Usenet messages):
> > 
> > |2.1.1.  From
> > |
> > |    The "From" line contains the electronic mailing address of the
> > |    person who sent the message, in the Internet syntax

> Nice try Nat, but in the case of the section from RFC1036 it's easily argued
> that news@massey... *is* the person who sent the message (after all, at some
> point in the news process Massey's system thinks it is, hence the from line).

Oh, that's interesting.  Does this mean that the Massey guys have ported Cnews
to the human brain?  "Person" in the context of Internet RFCs is usually 
quite specific about meaning "living breathing human being" where this is
applicable.  The userid a piece of transport software runs on doesn't 
qualify.  


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