Hello John,

 RS> There usually is enough. Normally the first line of the body of
 RS> the message contains who wrote what is being replied to.

 RS> It should be feasible to have a reader which has a phantom To:
 RS> field which doesnt actually from the header at all but has been
 RS> extracted from the body of the message.

 RS> There is also normally a full message ID which allows complete
 RS> threading etc too.

 JT> Ok, my next question is, if there IS enough information in the
 JT> public message as to who that message is intended for, the WHY
 JT> didn't they already write this into the gating software?

  There isn't... I've been reading scads of messages. Some have To:
information and some don't. We need an extra line in the header. The
header is just text, and is ended by a blank line. Some messages then
have a source which is probably derived from the header in the message
to which they are replying... but that may not be the person to whom
you are sending the reply!

  There is only one solution... we need to add a To: line and it has
o be in the header.

 JT> There is more than one gating package out there, ALL of them do
 JT> the same, address the message to all.

  As I have since discovered. The UUCP format is flawed.

Regards,
Bob
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