On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Mark J. Roberts wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Mark J. Roberts wrote:
> 
> > Eeeeekkk! My evil parser just used the wrong From: header on all Ian's
> > messages! Arrrggggghhhhh....
> 
> Actually, that was just coincidence. But did you know that some mail
> clients put the Reply-To: header right after the Date: header? Most put it
> somewhere after the Subject: header.
> 
> Whoever designed this email thing should be shot. Immediately.

It gets worse. Date: is not always the first header. Ian's mail client
puts Date: AFTER the Subject: header. I guess that means I can't assume
any order at all. Ah well, it just means I'll have to check if every line
starts with every header. Yuck.

I want to kill someone. Any volunteers?


-- 
Mark Roberts
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