minor suggestion: UserAgent and HTTP_FROM

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I think there should be a nice-n-easy way, on the UserAgent level,
to set the 'HTTP_FROM' address.  This is basically to encourage people
to follow the guidelines for robots outlined in 
  <URL:http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/guidelines.html>

Right now, it's certainly possible.  A quip from one of my scripts:

|  $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
|  $ua->agent("GlobalCash StockBot", "0.1");
|  my $req = new HTTP::Request( POST => 'http://www.pcquote.com/cgi-bin/client.exe' );
|  $req->header( HTTP_FROM => 'webmaster@onShore.com' ); 

I would think it would be a win to have a method so that one could say:

|  $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
|  $ua->agent("GlobalCash StockBot", "0.1"); 
|  $us->email('webmaster@onShore.com');

or something like that.

.....A. P. Harris...apharris@onShore.com...<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>

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