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visigoth@naiad.fac.cs.cmu.edu writes:

> It's my belief, that regardless of what any standard says, Gnus should
> accept messages in this broken format.  Remember: the goal is to
> accept as many formats as possible, even if they're broken, and to
> produce only correct output.
> 
> >From ...
> some stuff
> >From this line is in the message, not a new one
> some more stuff
> 
> should never be generated as an mbox file, unless Content-Length is
> included in the file, because From lines are quoted with >.  This is
> *not* ambiguous.  The above can only be generated by two sequential
> messages.

Uhm...  But the problem is that "From " lines in some mboxes *aren't*
quoted.

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(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen