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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Survey on damage by mailers.
Message-ID: <9024@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 2-Dec-87 14:19:38 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec  2 14:19:38 1987
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Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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There is nothing wrong with having the mailer use "From " as a way of
finding the boundary of messages, and putting ">" in front to avoid false
boundaries arising from occurrences of that string in text, *provided*
that the transformation is reversible, and is in fact reversed when the
message leaves the mailer.  Unfortunately, neither of these conditions
is true of the existing scheme.
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Those who do not understand Unix are |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
condemned to reinvent it, poorly.    | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry