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Re: Disabling Replies

2004-08-16 14:50:14

Bruce,

BL> Dave Crocker wrote:

That's what I meant to describe.  The headers sent by the early MH for a
bcc were:

Date: xxx
[To]: yyy
[cc]: zzz
Subject: aaa
From: bbb

BL> Gack! I'm assuming "early" means before RFC 2822.  Was it before RFC 822?

Yes. It was right around the time of RFC733, plus or minus a few months.


BL> RFC 822 required at least one destination address header field (RFC 2822
BL> has relaxed that, and it was not required in RFCs 733 and 724), and there
BL> are none in that example!

yeah. it probably violated that (later?) requirement, but it would be
easy to hack in a pro-forma To.

d/
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