Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!purdue!umd5!mimsy!chris From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Poll on shar formats: dot at beginning of line Message-ID: <11826@mimsy.UUCP> Date: 6 Jun 88 03:03:37 GMT References: <868@fig.bbn.com> <1494@microsoft.UUCP> <4838@teddy.UUCP> Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Lines: 16 In article <4838@teddy.UUCP> jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson) writes: >For some reason, people assume that a dot beginning a line is a >"dangerous sequence": It is NOT! What they are thinking of is a dot >ALONE on a line: This causes some mailers to terminate reading the >mail. It is silly to prefix EVERY line starting with a dot (nroff >source) because of this. I have received mail (nroff/troff files) where all the leading dots were doubled, because some broken SMTP server did not unquote them. Leading periods do constitute a `dangerous sequence' in some broken mailers. -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris