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Article #1882Re: Who comments out the From_ lines?
From: Robert Claeson
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 1990 15:29
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 1990 15:29
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In article <2597@cirrusl.UUCP>, dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
|> One day, when I invent a mail handler, it will use ^A-stuffing to solve
|> the problem. The message separater will be <cr>^A^A^A^A<cr>. If the
|> string ^A^A^A^A appears anywhere else, it will get ^A-stuffed into
|> ^A^A^A^A^A, and get de-stuffed by the user agent.
And in my mail handler, I think that I will keep a count of the number of characters
in a message before each message in the mailbox. That way, a message can contain
virtually anything and besides, reading it into the UA would be faster since I don't
have to scan each line for a message separator.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uupsi!sunic!erbe.se!prc From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Who comments out the From_ lines? Message-ID: <1990Oct25.152920.19278@erbe.se> Date: 25 Oct 90 15:29:20 GMT References: <1990Oct21.160918.9684@smsc.sony.com> <8134@gollum.twg.com> <2222@sunic.sunet.se> <2597@cirrusl.UUCP> Sender: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson) Reply-To: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson) Organization: ERBE DATA AB, Jakobsberg, Sweden Lines: 17