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June Genis <GA.JRG@STANFORD>
Thu, 17 Dec 87 08:30:01 PST
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>Let's imagine  that you resend mail  that someone else sent  you. I'm not
>speaking  about moderated  list, just  the  regular stuff.  You have  two
>choices: either  mark the file as  coming from the resender,  or from the
>original sender.  The person who'll  get the various messages  about mail
>being succesfully  distributed is the  one in the  from field. I  find it
>more normal to have the resender get this and be marked as sender of this
>peculiar  piece of  mail,  and  have the  original  sender an  "Comments:
>Resent-From:".
>
>  Eric
>
Eric, I buy your rational but I think the labeling is rather
misleading.  Seems like it would be better to have the Comment be
something like X-Originated-By:
/June

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