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

> Okay--here's a quote from the document I found which talks about mbox
> format.  It's from the man pages that come with qmail (yes,
> D.J. Bernstein is a flaming, uh, maniac, but I think this is
> reasonable):

Apropos: I think it would be nice if Gnus supported the less brain
damaged mbox format DJB advocates: When a plain text message is
imported to an mbox, all lines matching "^>*From " are quoted.  When
a mbox message is exported (displayed, saved to plain text), all
lines staring with `^>+From " are unquoted.

It has two advantages:

1) No loss of information occurs when used on new messages.  Ever.

2) When the algorithm is used on old messages already in an mbox
   folder, in 99.8% percent of the cases, the results are more
   correct. 

JWZ hates it, but he is wrong and DJB is right.