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- Newsgroups: nz.comp
- Subject: Re: Massey's world-class News system (was: Re: Kaypro 10 boot disk)
- Message-ID: <15911023@zl2tnm.gen.nz>
- From: don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (Don Stokes)
- Date: 24 Jan 93 02:11:38 GMT
- Sender: news@zl2tnm.gen.nz (GNEWS Version 2.0 news poster.)
- References: <1993Jan23.065144.24787@acme.gen.nz>
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- Organization: The Wolery
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- kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I) writes:
- > gnat@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (Nathan Torkington) writes:
- > > > non-compliant.
- > >
- > > RFC 1036 (Usenet messages):
- > >
- > > |2.1.1. From
- > > |
- > > | The "From" line contains the electronic mailing address of the
- > > | person who sent the message, in the Internet syntax
-
- > Nice try Nat, but in the case of the section from RFC1036 it's easily argued
- > that news@massey... *is* the person who sent the message (after all, at some
- > point in the news process Massey's system thinks it is, hence the from line).
-
- Oh, that's interesting. Does this mean that the Massey guys have ported Cnews
- to the human brain? "Person" in the context of Internet RFCs is usually
- quite specific about meaning "living breathing human being" where this is
- applicable. The userid a piece of transport software runs on doesn't
- qualify.
-
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