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[osc!strick@ea.ecn.purdue.edu ( really from strick@osc.com ): (RFC822>]

Amusing only if you tend sendmail (sort of like prodding a large
sleeping beast with a 10 foot pole, hoping it won't awaken).

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Date:    Fri, 28 Sep 90 13:09:01 -0700 
From:    osc!strick@ea.ecn.purdue.edu ( really from strick@osc.com )
To:      osc!stupid ( really to stupid@osc.com )
Subject: (RFC822>

For the past month some stupid mailer has been attempting to be
really clever and re\"attributing my messages so that they
say Really Silly Things like

	To: stupid@AMD.COM
	To:  AMC.COM!stupid
	To: stupid@prism.gatech.edu
	To: osc!strick@Sun.COM		(correct only under some interpetations
)

and equally stupid things on the From: line, prompting people to ask whether
I was now working at AMD or SUN or a student at northwestern or some 
other wierd at&t sites --  I have no idea what they are.

So lately I've been putting the real address in the comment field of the
To: and From: lines (when I wasn't putting something really bogus there)
and today I tried putting

	To: stupid ( <-- ignore that ... To: stupid@osc.com )
	From: strick ( <-- ignore that ... From: strick@osc.com )

knowing that the original names would get assigned to some random
host.  

Well I botched my RFC822 quiz, or else sendmail did, 
because it seems to look for "<" before
it strips out "()" comments, and sends back the following
wonderful error messages.  These go on my all time favorites list.
Free membership to "net.unix-wizards.sendmail" if you can explain
the unbalanced treatment of the final To: and From: lines, at 
the very bottom of all this.

And forgive me you get two of a couple of things.

					strick

>From amdcad!Mailer-Daemon Fri Sep 28 12:46:25 1990
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To: osc!strick
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   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
554 osc!strick... Unbalanced '('
554 osc!strick... Unbalanced '('
554 uunet!wmmvs.bitnet!#KRMILE,uunet!davidson.bitnet!BOSTRICKLAND,uunet!iis!kel
ls... Unbalanced '('
554 uunet!wmmvs.bitnet!#KRMILE,uunet!davidson.bitnet!BOSTRICKLAND,uunet!iis!kel
ls... Unbalanced '('
554 uunet!wmmvs.bitnet!#KRMILE,uunet!davidson.bitnet!BOSTRICKLAND,uunet!iis!kel
ls... Unbalanced '('
554 uunet!wmmvs.bitnet!#KRMILE,uunet!davidson.bitnet!BOSTRICKLAND,uunet!iis!kel
ls... Unbalanced '('
resolve 'andrew.cmu.edu!sw0l+' = 'andrew.cmu.edu!sw0l+' @ 'ames' (UUCP)
resolve 'andrew.cmu.edu!lb2n+' = 'andrew.cmu.edu!lb2n+' @ 'ames' (UUCP)
554 andrew.cmu.edu!lb2n+,andrew.cmu.edu!sw0l+... Unbalanced '('
554 andrew.cmu.edu!lb2n+,andrew.cmu.edu!sw0l+... Unbalanced '('
554 andrew.cmu.edu!lb2n+,andrew.cmu.edu!sw0l+... Unbalanced '('
554 andrew.cmu.edu!lb2n+,andrew.cmu.edu!sw0l+... Unbalanced '('
resolve 'ducvax.auburn.edu!ATDEP' = 'ducvax.auburn.edu!ATDEP' @ 'ames' (UUCP)
554 ducvax.auburn.edu!ATDEP... Unbalanced '('
554 ducvax.auburn.edu!ATDEP... Unbalanced '('
554 ducvax.auburn.edu!ATDEP... Unbalanced '('
554 ducvax.auburn.edu!ATDEP... Unbalanced '('
resolve 'acns.nwu.edu!nims' = 'acns.nwu.edu!nims' @ 'ames' (UUCP)
554 acns.nwu.edu!nims... Unbalanced '('
554 acns.nwu.edu!nims... Unbalanced '('
554 acns.nwu.edu!nims... Unbalanced '('
554 acns.nwu.edu!nims... Unbalanced '('
resolve 'cs.purdue.edu!ewk' = 'purdue!ewk' @ 'ames' (UUCP)
554 cs.purdue.edu!ewk... Unbalanced '('
554 cs.purdue.edu!ewk... Unbalanced '('
554 cs.purdue.edu!ewk... Unbalanced '('
554 cs.purdue.edu!ewk... Unbalanced '('

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From: strick ( <osc!strick
To: stupid ( <stupid
Subject: [ "st. dimas highschool football rules!" <BOSTRICKLAND@DAVIDSON.BITNET
>  true for every one.... ]

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