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Re: sun4 8.3.7: nmh

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Thu Jul 8 01:06:33 1999

Message-Id: <199907080506.BAA16291@bobbi-harlow.mit.edu>
To: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Jul 1999 18:00:56 EDT."
             <199907072200.SAA109481@antharia.mit.edu> 
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 01:06:21 -0400
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>

In message <199907072200.SAA109481@antharia.mit.edu>, Dan Winship writes:
>> Please describe any relevant documentation references:
>> 	RFC822
>
>Indeed. Section 6.1 says that "John Hawkinson testing this <jhawk>" is
>not a valid address. 

Sigh, this seems like a lame answer. After all, by that argument
we shouldn't even deliver such unqualified mail.

>It's still rude of nmh to rewrite it, but if you say
>"<jhawk@mit.edu>" instead of "<jhawk>", it won't.

That is well and truly disgusting. Thank you for the workaround.

--jhawk
  (who is unconvinced whether or not this is a bug, but sincerely
   hopes it is not a feature.)

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