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bursting non-digests

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From: Jamie Zawinski
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1993 19:06
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Most of the people I deal with are pretty stone-age when it comes to their
mail tools, and their idea of how to forward a message is to simply insert 
it into theiir sendmail buffer, so I'll get messages of this form:

	Date: Wed, 3 Mar 93 10:06:07 PST
	From: ...these are the actual message headers...

	...commentary...

	Date: Thu, 18 Feb 93 17:24:28 EST
	From: ...these are the headers of the "forwarded" message...

	...body of the forwarded message...

Yes, this is a bogus thing to do.  And yes, there's no way I'm going to
convince every person I correspond with to change their decade-old patterns
of mail usage.  

I want to reply to the message that has been forwarded to me, and normally
I would do this by bursting it first.  Has anyone expanded vm-burst-digest 
to recognise anything that looks like a message header as a message block,
as a last resort?

(Sometimes, but not always, there's a ">From " line in there too.)

	-- Jamie
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X-Windows: There's got to be a better way.
From: jwz@lucid.com (Jamie Zawinski)
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Subject: bursting non-digests
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