Re: [ADMIN] Read me first!

Rich Lafferty (rich@alcor.concordia.ca)
Tue, 18 Aug 1998 14:12:09 -0400

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Quoting Joshua D. Baer (Josh@SKYLIST.net) from Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 01:54:57PM -0500:
> On 8/18/98, Devin Reade <gdr@eddore.myrias.com> wrote:
>
> So don't use in your message and it won't happen. It's not
> a common string or anything (if we were substituting on "name" it would be
> another story). There aren't random body substitutions happening, it only
> happens in VERY specific instances which are easily avoided without any
> extra effort on your part. No one would even know about them if I hadn't
> left the footer at the bottom of messages in the beginning.

Yes, email addresses in brackets would /never/ appear on FAQs-maintainers.
"The software is broken, change your posting behaviour so as not to
trigger it" really doesn't seem like an acceptable solution here. Any
mail agent that alters the body of a message is nothing but broken.

-Rich

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