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From: blarson@skat.usc.edu (Bob Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Survey on damage by mailers.
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Date: Wed, 25-Nov-87 14:24:11 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 25 14:24:11 1987
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In article <256@irs1.UUCP> rshwake@irs1.UUCP (rshwake) writes:
>	I don't know if the original poster's intent was to suggest that
>prepending lines beginning with "From " with ">" constitutes damage. 

I don't see how it could be considered anything but damgage.

>Since
>the "From " string is used as a delimiter, separating one message from
>another, SOME means is required to prevent lines beginning with such a
>string from signaling the start of a new message.

This is true in some mail implementations.  They should NOT mess with
outgoing messages or messages just passing through, since not everyone
is using such poor software.

>	More critically, it would be TOO easy to fake a message from some
>user if such potential delimiters were not masked.

They could just figure out a way to delimit messages without messing
with the text of the message.  This isn't even an invertable bogosity.
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