From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/9870 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Greg Stark Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: mbox quoting (was: Re: Gnus, movemail, POP3, trailing empty lines) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 04:25:14 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: References: <0fbu9soebf.fsf@fraxinus.daimi.aau.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035149830 21058 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:37:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:37:10 +0000 (UTC) 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 BAA28889 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 01:53:21 -0800 Original-Received: from cti02.citenet.net (cti02.citenet.net [198.53.26.132]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 10:25:22 +0100 Original-Received: from great-white (g63-75.citenet.net) by cti02.citenet.net (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA06033; Tue, 11 Feb 97 04:25:17 EST Original-Received: by great-white id m0vuESg-0008kZC (Debian Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2); Tue, 11 Feb 1997 04:25:14 -0500 (EST) Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: <0fbu9soebf.fsf@fraxinus.daimi.aau.dk> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:9870 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:9870 > 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