Re: What's the "magic" of a Unix mailbox file?

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From: Jurgen Botz
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 17:47

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In article <BsLw4t.7pu@breeze.rsre.mod.uk> heading@hermes.mod.uk writes:
>In article <1992Aug6.153531.30349@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
>>In article <BsKE8J.2w2@breeze.rsre.mod.uk> heading@breeze.rsre.mod.uk (Anthony Heading) writes:
>>>From Anthony <heading@hermes.mod.uk> Thu Aug  6 14:34:35 1992
>>
>>  Just a moment - this is just plain WRONG!
>>
>
>Well OK. I'm sorry if it offends any purist principles you might hold, but
>  a) it's useful - the 'from' command prints recognisable names 

That's the tail wagging the dog.  Fix your "from" command instead... it
should only a few lines of Perl or Awk.

>  b) it *nearly* worked

Heh.  That's the _definition_ of a kludge.
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