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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: Re: "From:" lines violating standard
Message-ID: <927@cbosgd.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 5-Mar-85 17:34:57 EST
Article-I.D.: cbosgd.927
Posted: Tue Mar  5 17:34:57 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 6-Mar-85 05:15:38 EST
References: <274@t12tst.UUCP>
Organization: Bell Labs, Columbus
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The From lines listed by Chip are legal 822, but the restricted forms
permitted by 850 (the netnews standard) forbid them.  The idea behind
these restrictions was to make reply commands easier to write.

In practice, the two examples given don't look like they should bother
a typical reply command.  It would be reasonable to loosen up the
Usenet standard to permit them (and perhaps to permit full 822 syntax.)
I'm not offering to upgrade all the reply commands to do this, however,
so the people who would have to should have the final say.

	Mark