From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Jan 03 2002 - 08:25:24 CST
In <Pine.LNX.4.10.10201021521430.13444-100000@spock.peak.org> John Stanley <stanley@peak.org> writes:
>There is a good excuses for allowing an injector to add a missing
>Distribution, I can see no reason at all it should be messing with the
>Organization header. Not a single reason. Do you have one?
Just that it is a widespread current practice.
And it even makes good sense in the case of posters using the facilities
provided by their Company/University/whatever. It is also routinely done
in email (even though Organization is not defined in any of the email
standards).
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