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Revised LISTSERV forum <LSTSRV-L@DEARN>
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From:
"J. Philip Miller" <C90562JM@WUVMD>
Date:
Sun, 31 Jan 88 20:45:51 CST
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Message of Fri, 29 Jan 88 15:07:34 EST from <RAF@NIHCU>
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Revised LISTSERV forum <LSTSRV-L@DEARN>
>> > It would obligate mailers who want to state they are RFC822 conforming to
>> > not barf when they see it because RFC822 clearly provides for the
>> > registration
>> > of new headers.  Whether it utilizes it or not cannot be enforced, but what
>> > else is new?
>>
>> If they don't use it, then we won't get rejection mail sent to the right
>> place.
>
>Might it not be easier to convince authors of mailers to include a
>constant new header to identify rejection messages (i.e.,
>Acknowledgement-at:  Rejection) that to change their software to
>recognize a new header (such as Errors-to:) as specifying the place
>to send rejections?  Sounds like less work to me.
>
>Roger
 
among other things that does not allow LISTSERV to use the sender header
the way god & frc822 intended! :-)

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