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Aucbvax.4611 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Thu Oct 22 17:21:59 1981 Long headers >From decvax!duke!unc!smb@Berkeley Thu Oct 22 16:45:45 1981 Sorry if the header lines annoy you -- one of the reasons you get a few extra lines from me is that I got a bit tired of people assuming I was at Berkeley (or sometimes duke). I'd gladly eliminate them if my mailer would stick to ARPA-compatible headers that include my real name and site, but given the constraints of uucp, that won't work. ARPA standard RFC733 requires "Date:" and "From:" lines, defines certain other fields such as "Subject:", and permits anything that conforms to certain loose standards . The program at Berkeley that passes the mailing list through to the Usenet strips off most headers, so I don't see what all the mailers along the way stick in.

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