Bakin.SSID@HI-MULTICS.ARPA (03/02/84)
I recently received a message with two fields I had never seen before: RESENT-(FROM TO) I took offense at the person listed as resent from, I don't know him, why should he resent me! I was pleased that the mailer told me that guy resents me, I'll never send him mail again, but how did the mailer figure it out? YES, it was me he resents, because I was listed as the RESENT-TO! But this jerk also resents an entire mailing list, because they were in there too. Does some RFC exist specifying fields such as this? Is there a FLAMING-DEATH-TO field? or maybe a VOTE-FOR field? I was aware of such fields as SENDER:, FROM:, and I had thought something like Redistributed-By, and maybe Redistributed-To:, but I really think we should leave such personal fields as RESENTMENT out headers entirely! Jerry. P.S. Maybe this should be RE-SENT-(FROM TO)?
Ellis@YALE.ARPA (John R Ellis) (03/02/84)
RESENT-(FROM TO)
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Does some RFC exist specifying fields such as this?
Read RFC 822.
P.S. Maybe this should be RE-SENT-(FROM TO)?
My Random House College Dictionary (1975), admittedly not the best
dictionary, has the following definition for "resend":
resend, ... resent, resending. 1. to send again. 2. to send back.
So "Resent-From" is hyphenated correctly.
-------MOOERS@BBNA.ARPA (03/02/84)
I agree completely that "RESENT" is an unfortunate choice. I was told that Dave Crocker thought it was cute. At the time that RFC822 was written, HERMES and MSG used "REDISTRIBUTED" and MM used "REMAILED". I don't know that anyone was using "RESENT". HERMES spells the fields "ReSent". What else can you do? ---Charlotte