From: Greg Stark <gsstark@MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: mbox quoting (was: Re: Gnus, movemail, POP3, trailing empty lines)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 04:25:14 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m0vuESg-0008kZC@great-white> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0fbu9soebf.fsf@fraxinus.daimi.aau.dk>
> Because it quotes ALL ">*From" lines! ">>From" can only be in an
> article, if the algorithm put the first > there.
> Just like the NNTP server quotes all leading .'s, so it can be certain
> that a single dot on the line means end of data.
this would be a perfectly consistent and probably superior format but the
important thing to realize is that it would be a different format than the
existing mbox. It's really far too late in the game to be fiddling with the
mbox format, you lose compatibility with an enormous number of other clients
and invent yet another mail format only one with no published spec and one
that's easily mistaken for another format. If you really dislike this little
wart in the mbox format use babyl, or mh, or any other mail format, it's just
not worth inventing a new one.
greg
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-02-11 9:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-02-03 15:24 Gnus, movemail, POP3, trailing empty lines Kai Grossjohann
1997-02-03 16:36 ` Rich Pieri
1997-02-03 20:01 ` visigoth
1997-02-04 0:50 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-02-04 12:05 ` Kai Grossjohann
1997-02-04 13:03 ` Bernard.Steiner
1997-02-04 13:10 ` Per Abrahamsen
1997-02-04 13:43 ` Kai Grossjohann
1997-02-04 14:41 ` Bernard.Steiner
1997-02-04 15:23 ` Rich Pieri
1997-02-04 15:31 ` Kai Grossjohann
1997-02-04 10:14 ` dave edmondson
1997-02-04 14:52 ` Rich Pieri
1997-02-05 22:40 ` Michael Huehne
1997-02-05 10:47 ` Kai Grossjohann
1997-02-08 9:25 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-02-08 11:50 ` visigoth
1997-02-08 12:32 ` Per Abrahamsen
1997-02-08 16:08 ` Frank D. Cringle
1997-02-08 19:11 ` Steven L Baur
1997-02-09 2:58 ` Rich Pieri
1997-02-09 9:34 ` Per Abrahamsen
1997-02-09 14:56 ` Randal Schwartz
1997-02-09 15:32 ` mbox quoting (was: Re: Gnus, movemail, POP3, trailing empty lines) Per Abrahamsen
1997-02-10 14:52 ` Rich Pieri
1997-02-10 15:30 ` Per Abrahamsen
1997-02-10 15:45 ` Lars Balker Rasmussen
1997-02-11 9:25 ` Greg Stark [this message]
1997-02-11 11:36 ` Per Abrahamsen
1997-02-11 12:52 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-02-11 13:44 ` Per Abrahamsen
1997-02-11 18:43 ` Sudish Joseph
1997-02-12 7:35 ` Per Abrahamsen
1997-02-12 12:52 ` Randal Schwartz
1997-02-12 8:47 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-02-11 12:57 ` Randal Schwartz
1997-02-11 13:28 ` Per Abrahamsen
1997-02-11 13:33 ` Randal Schwartz
1997-02-11 14:16 ` Per Abrahamsen
1997-02-11 16:13 ` Rich Pieri
1997-02-12 7:28 ` Per Abrahamsen
1997-02-11 15:00 ` Rich Pieri
1997-02-09 16:19 ` Gnus, movemail, POP3, trailing empty lines Rich Pieri
1997-02-09 22:21 ` Mark Eichin
1997-02-10 4:44 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-02-10 4:45 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-02-10 8:05 ` visigoth
1997-02-11 12:38 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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