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From: honey@down.FUN (Peter Honeyman)
Newsgroups: net.mail.headers
Subject: Re: Avoiding expansion of mail's metacharacters
Message-ID: <577@down.FUN>
Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 21:30:02 EDT
Article-I.D.: down.577
Posted: Thu Aug 22 21:30:02 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 04:10:34 EDT
References: <5063@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Organization: CS Dept., Princeton University
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I take issue with Barry's assertion:

	In UUCP it is necessary for sites to look at and modify headers
	as they pass through, because UUCP paths have to be rewritten.
	This is not true in the Arpa Internet, because host names are
	global.

UUCP never looks at the data file (except to transfer it).  And in
standard UNIX, rmail prepends a "From user  remote from host"
line, but otherwise leaves the message untouched, headers (which are
not distinguished from the body) and all.

Perhaps Barry refers to Berkeley UNIX, which is hardly a guide for
proper mail handling.

	peter