Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry 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 Article-I.D.: utzoo.9024 Posted: Wed Dec 2 14:19:38 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 2-Dec-87 14:19:38 EST References: <408@minya.UUCP>, <256@irs1.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 9 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. -- Those who do not understand Unix are | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology condemned to reinvent it, poorly. | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry