Re: mbox quoting (was: Re: Gnus, movemail, POP3, trailing empty lines)

[Randal Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>]

>>>>> "Per" == Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:

Per> Greg Stark <gsstark@MIT.EDU> writes:
>> you lose compatibility with an enormous number of other clients

Per> You don't lose compatibility with any software.  The algorithm will
Per> work on any syntactically correct mbox, and produce a syntactically
Per> correct mbox.  All existing tools will continue to work.

Per> The two cases are:

Per> (1) When software using the old algorithm is used on mboxes created by
Per> the new algorithm, no additional damage is done.

Wrong.  >>From becomes >From, where it wasn't originally.  That looks
like damage to me.

Per> (2) When software using the new algorithm is used on mboxes created by
Per> the old algorithm, the result is usually, but not always, better or
Per> equal to what software using the old algorithm would produce.

Content of paragraph: zero. :-)

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