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Randal Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com> writes:

> Per> (1) When software using the old algorithm is used on mboxes created by
> Per> the new algorithm, no additional damage is done.
> 
> Wrong.  >>From becomes >From, where it wasn't originally.  That looks
> like damage to me.

Wrong.  The old algorithm doesn't unqote "^>>From" so no change happens.  
You /could/ argue that it does damage by *not* unquoting it, though.

Perhaps you were talking about the case (2), where this can happen?