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From: "Roger Fajman" <RAF@CU.NIH.GOV>
Date:     Mon, 18 Sep 1995  18:57:29 EDT
Subject:  Re:  Resent- facility

> >The  "Reply  all"  command  could be  designed  to  automatically  fetch
> >addresses also from the included message. Or only from that message.
>
> If the question is "can such code  be written", the answer is yes. But if
> you ask yourself whether this is  something that makes sense or should be
> encouraged, I'm afraid the answer is  no. There isn't even a standard for
> how this included  message should be formatted. We all  know how PINE and
> Eudora do  it and one can  write a big  program with kludges for  all the
> major mail programs, but this just results in a big mess.

The standard would be MIME using message/rfc822, or some variation of
that.  That is machine parsable.