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From: michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au>
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Subject: Re: /var/mail default permissions??
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 21:04:37 +1000 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: <199604110753.JAA04132@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Apr 11, 96 09:53:27 am
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J Wunsch writes:

> Me too, but i knew where the problem was, quickly left elm, edited my
> inbox, started elm again, and had to smile about Terry's
> explanation. ;-)
 
> (This From_ convention is really the worst thing in the entire mail
> handling.)

One (good ?) reason why Sun & SVR4 went for a 'Content-Length' header line
.. it helped some sysadmins from having heart-failure trying to track
"anonymous" messages down that didn't appear in their logs :-)

	michael