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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!agate!netsys!decwrl!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!europa.asd.contel.com!emory!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usc!news.service.uci.edu!unogate!mvb.saic.com!mx-list
  2. From: "Brian Tillman, Smiths Industries, VAX Support, x8425"
  3. Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
  4. Subject: Re: VMS MAIL personal names / From: lines
  5. Message-ID: <00963690.AA79D4E0.14306@swdev.si.com>
  6. Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 14:55:46 EST
  7. Organization: Mx-List<==>Vmsnet.Mail.Mx Gateway
  8. X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List
  9. Lines: 16
  10.  
  11. Matthew Madison (madison@tgv.com) writes:
  12.  
  13. >BTW, it appears that the software that gateways the MX-List mailing list
  14. >to the vmsnet.mail.mx newsgroup (which is where I read this stuff) also has
  15. >problems with your From: line, most likely because it spans multiple lines.
  16.  
  17. When I read the RFC, it apeared to say that folded lines were perfectly
  18. legitimate and that they are supposed to be handled by RFC-compliant mailers.
  19. Is it, then, that the gateway isn't RFC-compliant?
  20.  
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  22.  Brian Tillman               | Internet: tillman@swdev.si.com
  23.  Smiths Industries, Inc.     |           tillman_brian@si.com
  24.  4141 Eastern Ave., MS129    | Hey, I said this stuff myself.
  25.  Grand Rapids, MI 49518-8727 | My company has no part in it.
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