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Date: 2 March 1984 10:54-EST From: Christopher C. Stacy <CSTACY> @ MIT-MC Sender: KMP @ MIT-MC Subject: [Bakin.SSID: RESENT field :)] To: "(FILE [MC:HUMOR;RESENT MAIL])" @ MIT-MC Orig-Date: 1 March 1984 17:12-EST To: KMP at MC ReSent-To: (FILE [MC:HUMOR;RESENT MAIL]) Date: 1 March 1984 13:37 pst From: Bakin.SSID at HI-MULTICS To: HEADER-PEOPLE Re: RESENT field :) I recently received a message with two fields I had never seen before: RESENT-(FROM TO) I took offense at the person listed as resent from, I don't know him, why should he resent me! I was pleased that the mailer told me that guy resents me, I'll never send him mail again, but how did the mailer figure it out? YES, it was me he resents, because I was listed as the RESENT-TO! But this jerk also resents an entire mailing list, because they were in there too. Does some RFC exist specifying fields such as this? Is there a FLAMING-DEATH-TO field? or maybe a VOTE-FOR field? I was aware of such fields as SENDER:, FROM:, and I had thought something like Redistributed-By, and maybe Redistributed-To:, but I really think we should leave such personal fields as RESENTMENT out headers entirely! Jerry. P.S. Maybe this should be RE-SENT-(FROM TO)?