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From: Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: MS Outlook for mail server?
Date: 02 Jul 1999 22:40:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <iluvhc2dbul.fsf@sprat.pdc.kth.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Hrvoje Niksic's message of "02 Jul 1999 18:03:14 +0200"

Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

> Why is that?  I mean, why can't Gnus handle it?  Elisp strings and
> symbols are very clean -- as far as Emacs is concerned, you can well
> have NUL characters in them, let alone spaces.

Gnus uses some constructs from NNTP when talking to backends, and it
uses SPC as a separator.

> If Gnus refuses to handle spaces in groups because they are forbidden
> on Usenet, maybe Gnus should be fixed to be more lenient for other
> backends?

Yes.


  reply	other threads:[~1999-07-02 20:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-07-02 13:16 Jack Vinson
1999-07-01 13:31 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-07-01 13:40 ` William M. Perry
1999-07-09 13:10   ` Toby Speight
1999-07-10 18:28     ` Rui-Tao Dong ~{6-HpLN~}
1999-07-01 15:35 ` Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren
1999-07-01 18:54   ` Danny Siu
1999-07-01 19:09     ` Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren
1999-07-01 20:29       ` William M. Perry
1999-07-04  7:06         ` Rui-Tao Dong ~{6-HpLN~}
1999-07-01 19:19   ` Rupa Schomaker (list)
1999-07-01 19:52     ` Nathan Williams
1999-07-02 16:03     ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-07-02 20:40       ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
1999-07-04  3:17       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-07-02  6:34 ` Soeren Laursen

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