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Re: Pasting in From:

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (? the Platypus {aka David Formosa})
Wed Dec 3 01:02:07 1997

Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 14:56:15 +1100 (EST)
From: ? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} <dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au>
To: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
cc: gburnore@netcom.com, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19971130202253.007595d8@popd.ix.netcom.com>
Reply-To: ? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} <dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au>

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On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Bill Stewart wrote:

[...]

> So if the remailers don't support From: pasting, it's no loss.
> Similarly, for Reply-To: and Sender: and Path: and Received:
> and maybe a few other occasionally-forged header fields.

There is a good reson to allow peaple to stick there a 'Reply-To:' in.
This permits replies to be directed to some sort of anon post office box
or other such mechanisum.

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Themselves? --Terry Pratchett.  I do not reply to munged addresses.

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