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Article #1858Re: Who comments out the From_ lines?
From: Neil Rickert
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 1990 21:57
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 1990 21:57
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In article <1990Oct21.160918.9684@smsc.sony.com> dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott) writes: >When I was using a 4.3BSD machine, I found that mail messages >containing lines beginning with the word "From " would be >changed into ">From " by the mail system (it looks like it was >rmail). > This is done by /bin/mail during the final delivery of the mail to your mailbox. It is done quite crudely, so that valid text lines in the message are also changed at times -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science <rickert@cs.niu.edu> Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115. +1-815-753-6940
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cica!iuvax!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!mp.cs.niu.edu!rickert From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Who comments out the From_ lines? Message-ID: <1990Oct21.215709.14022@mp.cs.niu.edu> Date: 21 Oct 90 21:57:09 GMT References: <1990Oct21.160918.9684@smsc.sony.com> Organization: Northern Illinois University Lines: 15