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Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 11:59:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mark Crispin <MRC@Panda.COM>
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Subject: Re: Comments and Resent-* header fields
To: Eric Thomas <ERIC@SEARN.SUNET.SE>
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        Robert Elz <kre@munnari.oz.au>, drums@CS.UTK.EDU
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On Tue, 3 Oct 1995 18:36:50 +0100, Eric Thomas wrote:
> If a message has both Resent- and non-resent fields, LISTSERV uses the
> Resent- fields and ignore the original ones. RiceMail does pretty much
> the same, and so does most VMS-based software (before deciding what to
> put in the relevant VMSmail fields). I never read mail on unix, so I'm
> not really familiar with unix mail programs.

It has been well-established that LISTSERV is broken software.