Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!yetti!geac!daveb 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) Organization: The little blue rock next to that twinkly star. Lines: 27 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 -- David Collier-Brown. {mnetor|yetti|utgpu}!geac!daveb Geac Computers International Inc., | Computer Science loses its 350 Steelcase Road,Markham, Ontario, | memory (if not its mind) CANADA, L3R 1B3 (416) 475-0525 x3279 | every 6 months.