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On 1996-12-02 02:28, imb{at}walkabout.asstdc.com.au of 3:712/400{at}fidonet wrote:

i> From: imb{at}walkabout.asstdc.com.au (michael butler)
i> Reply-To: imb{at}asstdc.com.au

i> : Michael + Robert, as the official internetter-clutterer-uppers in here, ..

i> "official" .. *LOL*

i> : can you tell me whether you use X-Comment-To or To in order to get your
i> : silly internet messages into fidonet properly.

i> I'm not sure I'd agree with "silly" but I use
"X-Comment-To: Fido User Name"
i> because the original specification for news (which is a different but
i> deceivingly similar standard - RFC-822 vs. 1036? or whatever it is) did not
i> include a "To" field.

i> From my operational perspective, it's transparent .. patches to my
i> newsreader do this automagically.

i> I wish someone would *kill* that *&${at}* mail processor that's truncating
i> subject lines ..

i> michael


Hi folks, it looks like I got the syntax of X-Comment-To right.  BFN.  Paul.
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