gregbo@houxm.UUCP (Greg Skinner) (08/25/84)
From: Greg Skinner <ihnp4!ut-sally!harvard!Gds%MIT-XX.ARPA>
Subject: Re: user-editable mail headers
From: Mark Crispin <MRC@SU-SCORE.ARPA>
The command which GDS uses to generate "From: Gregbo" is a power
tool in MM and not a result of any failure in it. There are
other commands which can be used to "become" some other user which
do ensure valid RFC 822 header lines. A "power tool" is something
which lets the user go beyond the program's (narrow) interpretation
of whatever standard...either to use some unimplemented or new
feature...or in this case to violate it.
Now hold on! Just because I like to modify my headers, it doesn't
mean that I am violating the mailsystem! I've seen some really
ridiculous headers in my day, and mine is quite reasonable compared to
those!
Did someone do a rmgroup on net.mail.headers? We're not getting it here.
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Greg Skinner (gregbo)
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