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From: brian@ucsd.EDU (Brian Kantor)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: "From:" vs. "From_"
Message-ID: <1299@ucsd.EDU>
Date: 5 Dec 88 17:56:33 GMT
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Reply-To: brian@ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor)
Organization: The Avant-Garde of the Now, Ltd.
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The crux of the matter is that RFC976 is a Request for Comment.  I have
commented upon it; I think its treatment of the From: line processing
is wrong.  My comment has had the resounding impact of a feather on a
snowbank: no one has claimed that I was misguided, no one has said "right
on" either.

I think it's time to review RFC976 carefully and issue a revised
version.  The From: line stuff isn't the only flaw in it, but it is,
in my opinion, the most harmful error in the RFC.

As a minor note, we're in the process of revamping RFC977 (NNTP)
as well, since experience has proven that we blew it in a couple
of places.  No matter that it took us over a dozen drafts, over
six months, and had input from and were reviewed by MANY news gurus.
Stepwise refinement, I think they call it.  I refer to it as "trial
and error".

	Brian Kantor	UCSD Office of Academic Computing
			Academic Network Operations Group  
			UCSD B-028, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
			brian@ucsd.edu ucsd!brian BRIAN@UCSD