From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Feb 29 2000 - 06:50:23 CST
In <Pine.BSI.3.91.1000228155915.143D-100000@spsystems.net> Henry Spencer <henry@spsystems.net> writes:
>Uh, how so? We can't magically fix all the software. Whether or not we
>decree that From is optional, it will remain mandatory in practice, so we
>might as well admit it, instead of commanding the tide not to advance.
In any case, a From header is jolly useful. It is the first thing I look
at when reading an article, just to see who wrote it (and to get some feel
for how seriously I should then be taking it).
Anonymous articles are a Bad Thing, generally speaking, so anyone who
writes one shjould be made to admit is by making it evident in his From
line.
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