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to: Jeff Green
from: Bob Lawrence
date: 1997-06-01 09:54:04
subject: UUCP!!!

To: Jeff Green

 JG>> The important part would be the "To: first [middle] last
 JG>> From:" part.

 BL> It would be better to use a separator before From: or the
 BL> program would be confused by triple names and hyphens. But in
 BL> any case it's only the To: we need.

 JG> I figured that whatever was after the To: and before the From:
 JG> would be the name regardless of how many separate words are
 JG> there. 

  Quite right. I bow to your greater understanding.

 JG> Here's a copy of a message I'm going to send to the author. Let
 JG> me know if you think it needs changing: >>

 JG> Would it be possible to have Watergate put an "X-Comment-To:"
 JG> (followed by the persons name) header in messages gated from
 JG> Fido echoes to UUCP newsgroups? This is based on the To: line
 JG> in the message in the fido message base (Squish in my case). A
 JG> lot of the uucp users would like the X-Comment-To: header as a
 JG> way of quickly scanning for personal mail. We'll take care of
 JG> the "personal mail scanning" utilities making sense of the
 JG> header line if you could put it in please. I also copy this
 JG> header line as a kludge line to messages gated from UUCP to
 JG> Fido. Would it be possible to have these X-Comment-To: headers
 JG> used as the To: recipient on tossed messages? A lot of the Fido
 JG> users would like this if possible. >>

  That's good. It gets the message across ok. It's crazy that no one
but us has found a need for it!

Regards,
Bob
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