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From: daveb@geac.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Survey on damage by mailers.
Message-ID: <1904@geac.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Nov-87 08:25:31 EST
Article-I.D.: geac.1904
Posted: Mon Nov 30 08:25:31 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 3-Dec-87 01:08:48 EST
References: <408@minya.UUCP> <7754@g.ms.uky.edu> <8991@utzoo.UUCP> <471@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
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In article <471@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM> brian@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM (Brian Onn) writes:
|In article <8991@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
||| Actually, the "From " line at the beginning of the file is a misfeature
||| (in this day and age ...
|I agree!  I hate those "From " lines and "remote from" lines in mail messages.
|I have been giving serious thought to hacking on smail so that it removes 
|those lines.  As long as we have a domain mailer, I don't care how the mail
|got here. 
  You may... When the mailer frogs trying to reply.

|Of course this means that all sites that mess with the "From: " line will
|have to refrain from doing this :-).
|
|Anyone have any reasons (besides the obvious one above) as to why I should
|not go ahead and do this?

  Well, you probably want to do it in the mail display agent (mail
reader) and not in the transfer agent(s).  Otherwise you'll get
flamed by someone trying to get in and out of a domainized universe
to/from a path-based universe.

 --dave
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