Date: Tue, 15 Nov 1994 16:40:38 -0500 (CDT)
From: Aaron Ucko <UCKO AT VAX1 DOT ROCKHURST DOT EDU>
Subject: Re: Ununderstandable Subject
To: TAUPIN AT rsovax DOT lps DOT u-psud DOT fr
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Organization: Rockhurst College; Kansas City, MO

>To all people who complaint: below is the text of a message I sent
>from my faulty VAX (with Subj: instead of Subject:) to another
>account on a recent UNIX HP_UX HP9000.
>
>The Subj: clearly appears in the TOC of the mail, and in the
>text of the mail I show below. Thus, this is some kind of
>intolerance by SOME (not all) mail receivers which refuse to
>understand the up-to-date Subject: as well as the old fashioned
>Subj:.

We receive the "Subj:" line just fine, but then again we'd also receive "Foo:
Bar" if you inserted it in your header.  The question is, if you tell the
other system you want to reply to the message you sent it, will it take the
"Subj:" line?  Probably not.

>to say" you are silly not to be able to read german (same for
>French, Latine and ancient Greek).
		    ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ And how does one write that in ASCII?

--- Aaron Ucko (ucko AT vax1 DOT rockhurst DOT edu; finger for PGP public key) -=- httyp!
-=*=-Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.-=*=-
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