Re: Mandatory From field, anonymity, and hacks

On Thu, 05 Aug 2004 21:36:03 -0400, Bruce Lilly <blilly(_at_)erols(_dot_)com>  
wrote:
> Charles Lindsey wrote:
>
> > However, if you want to see what the actual authors of RFC 2606
> > intended  it to mean, you might care to look at
> > <http://purl.net/net/msgid/aacu37$clc$1(_at_)krell(_dot_)zikzak(_dot_)de>,
> > which not only confirms its appropriateness within Netnews,
> There is also nothing there which says exactly what use is referred  
> to by
> "the kind of use you are talking about", or indeed any reference to  
> what
> message that might have been in response to.
He says:
   I don't see any problem in using .invalid in news messages to
   indicate an invalid address.

which seems clear enough to me as to "what use is referred to".

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