Errors-to: owner-drums@CS.UTK.EDU
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 10:37:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mark Crispin <MRC@Panda.COM>
Sender: Mark Crispin <mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM>
Subject: Re: Resent- facility
To: Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no
Cc: Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se>, Keith Moore <moore@CS.UTK.EDU>,
        ietf-drums <drums@CS.UTK.EDU>
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On Mon, 18 Sep 1995 14:55:00 +0200, Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no wrote:
> I've found Resent: useful in one single instance:
>
> When a message is in my mailbox, and should have been in the mailbox
> of an automatic processor, I want to forward it, but make it appear
> as if it came from the original sender.

This is precisely why ReSent (or Remailed or Redistributed in its earlier
incarnations) exists, and precisely why those of us who use it do not want to
see egregious changes made to it.  This is a useful function which we
emphatically do not want to lose.  MIME forwarding is *not* a replacement for
this function.