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Re: VMS MAIL personal names / From: lines

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From: Brian Tillman Smiths Industries ...
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:55
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Matthew Madison (madison@tgv.com) writes:

>BTW, it appears that the software that gateways the MX-List mailing list
>to the vmsnet.mail.mx newsgroup (which is where I read this stuff) also has
>problems with your From: line, most likely because it spans multiple lines.

When I read the RFC, it apeared to say that folded lines were perfectly
legitimate and that they are supposed to be handled by RFC-compliant mailers.
Is it, then, that the gateway isn't RFC-compliant?

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 Brian Tillman               | Internet: tillman@swdev.si.com
 Smiths Industries, Inc.     |           tillman_brian@si.com
 4141 Eastern Ave., MS129    | Hey, I said this stuff myself.
 Grand Rapids, MI 49518-8727 | My company has no part in it.
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From: "Brian Tillman, Smiths Industries, VAX Support, x8425"
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Subject: Re: VMS MAIL personal names / From: lines
Message-ID: <00963690.AA79D4E0.14306@swdev.si.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 14:55:46 EST
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