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Article #316Re: binmail vs MMDF mail file format
From: Bill Wisner
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 1989 02:50
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 1989 02:50
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The person I never expected to see posting with a valid address, Russ Nelson, writes: >I may have a problem with MMDF format if it assumes that you never send > >in your mail message(s). In fact, sending > >is not a totally crazy thing to do. I just did it twice, and since things >always come in threes, here's a third: > >Of course, you people reading this via news undoubtedly had no problem with >the ^A lines. Anyone who had this message mailed to them via MMDF may >not see this. Wrong. Totally, utterly wrong. USENET and Internet mail are both equally incapable of handling control characters. Those three lines, on which you ostensibly types \001s, are absolutely empty. So, you see, sending \001\001\001\001 *is* a totally crazy thing to do. Neither news nor mail are required to handle control characters according to the rules, so they don't. Bill Wisner wisner@mica.berkeley.edu ucbvax!mica!wisner I'm not the NRA either.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!mica.berkeley.edu!wisner From: wisner@mica.Berkeley.EDU (Bill Wisner) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,alt.religion.computers Subject: Re: binmail vs MMDF mail file format Message-ID: <WISNER.89Jul4195054@anableps.berkeley.edu> Date: 5 Jul 89 02:50:54 GMT References: <113461@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <1518@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> <113567@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <WISNER.89Jul3114848@anableps.berkeley.edu> <113637@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <WISNER.89Jul4170048@anableps.berkeley.edu> <NELSON.89Jul4220946@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: Verrifast Plaine Co Ltd Lines: 25 In-reply-to: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu's message of 5 Jul 89 02:10:18 GMT