Re: command line vs gui

From: Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz (spamtrap_at_library.lspace.org.invalid)
Date: 11/27/05 

Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 09:20:16 -0500

In <3un2i1F12cdr5U1@individual.net>, on 11/25/2005
   at 12:01 AM, blmblm@myrealbox.com said:

>Nice to hear another opinion on this. You're right that duplicating
>information is not helpful except in conforming to a supposed
>syntactic standard

It's a real standard. Or at least a real RFC.

>which only AC seems to be adamant about

No. Many people are adamant about the standard, although indifferent
to what AC wants. According to the standard the name and the comment
are both *optional*.

>And in the process of removing the duplicate information in headers,

It would be more helpful for to use

From: "B. L. Massingill" <blmblm@myrealbox.com>

but, as I noted, what you are currently using is syntactically valid. 

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