From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/9884 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Randal Schwartz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: mbox quoting (was: Re: Gnus, movemail, POP3, trailing empty lines) Date: 11 Feb 1997 05:57:48 -0700 Sender: merlyn@gadget.cscaper.com Message-ID: <8clo8v4i0j.fsf@gadget.cscaper.com> References: <0fbu9soebf.fsf@fraxinus.daimi.aau.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035149842 21143 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:37:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:37:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Greg Stark , ding@ifi.uio.no Return-Path: Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id FAA29319 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 05:26:25 -0800 Original-Received: from gadget.cscaper.com (gadget.cscaper.com [206.67.186.3]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 13:58:15 +0100 Original-Received: (from merlyn@localhost) by gadget.cscaper.com (8.8.3/8.8.3) id FAA15143; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 05:57:49 -0700 (MST) Original-To: Per Abrahamsen In-Reply-To: Per Abrahamsen's message of 11 Feb 1997 12:36:49 +0100 Original-Lines: 29 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.11/Emacs 19.34 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:9884 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:9884 >>>>> "Per" == Per Abrahamsen writes: Per> Greg Stark 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. :-) -- Name: Randal L. Schwartz / Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 Keywords: Perl training, UNIX[tm] consulting, video production, skiing, flying Email: Snail: (Call) PGP-Key: (finger merlyn@ora.com) Web: My Home Page! Quote: "I'm telling you, if I could have five lines in my .sig, I would!" -- me