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Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> writes:

> In my eyes, this is perfectly acceptable behavior.  
> "From: <jrl@frob.org>" is illegal according to RFC 822. ;)

I know.  But these addresses do exist, and this is surely a borderline
case.  I mean, it is illegal only for obscure technical reasons having
to do with the wording in the RFC...

IMHO, IWBNI Gnus would show useful addresses even for such From
headers.  Be they legal or not.

kai
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