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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com>
To: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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On Wed, 20 Sep 1995, Garrett A. Wollman wrote:

> And `Content-Length' is a really idiotic AT&T-ism designed by people
> who didn't understand mail; I would not bloat our programs by
> attempting to support it.

  "Content-Length" is the best way we have for efficiently parsing e-mail 
boxes into individual messages.

Tom