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From: Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk>
Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no
Subject: Re: mbox quoting (was: Re: Gnus, movemail, POP3, trailing empty lines)
Date: 11 Feb 1997 14:44:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <rjenen31a5.fsf@zuse.dina.kvl.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of 11 Feb 1997 13:52:23 +0100


Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

> 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".

Right.  My point was that the original would still be recoverable (by
using the new algorithm).  The message in the mbox does not change.
In this way it is different than the Content-Length hack.  If you use
the old tools on that a CL-mbox, it could do unrecoverable damage to
the mbox and the individual messages.


  reply	other threads:[~1997-02-11 13:44 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
1997-02-11 11:36                       ` Per Abrahamsen
1997-02-11 12:52                         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-02-11 13:44                           ` Per Abrahamsen [this message]
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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