From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/9878 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: mbox quoting (was: Re: Gnus, movemail, POP3, trailing empty lines) Date: 11 Feb 1997 13:52:23 +0100 Sender: larsi@proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no Message-ID: References: <0fbu9soebf.fsf@fraxinus.daimi.aau.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035149837 21104 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:37:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:37:17 +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 FAA29272 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 05:15:26 -0800 Original-Received: from proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no (root@xyplex27.uio.no [129.240.154.47]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 13:57:06 +0100 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no (8.8.2/8.8.2) id NAA21677; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 13:52:24 +0100 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Per Abrahamsen's message of 11 Feb 1997 12:36:49 +0100 Original-Lines: 42 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.13/Emacs 19.34 X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ writes: > (1) When software using the old algorithm is used on mboxes created by > the new algorithm, no additional damage is done. Original mail (indented to avoid mailers choking): She said: >From the beginning of time >man has yearned to destroy the sun. People who use old software on new mboxes will see things like: She said: >>From the beginning of time >man has yearned to destroy the sun. I think this may be called "additional damage". > (2) When software using the new algorithm is used on mboxes created by > the old algorithm, the result is usually, but not always, better or > equal to what software using the old algorithm would produce. It is usually better, but people using new software on old mboxes would then see: She said: From the beginning of time >man has yearned to destroy the sun. I'm not arguing that the new format is worse than the old -- it isn't. It's much better. But we have to keep in mind that it is a *new* format, and using it will introduce new problems. It isn't simply an improvement of the old format; it's a new, incompatible format. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen