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Arnaldo Mandel writes:
 > 	I have been using vm-4.41 for a while, and was quite happy with it.
 > Recently, some digests I receive have become undigestible.  Looks like there
 > was a change in the digest format which confuses vm. I tried something newer,
 > and installed version 5.31.  It is working fine, except for the same problem.
 > That is, when a digest is burst, it really goes to pieces, with some messages
 > being taken apart as several messages, and the beginning and end of the text
 > not being recognized.
 > 	Should anybody (Kyle?) care tackling this bug, I can mail a copy of
 > one of these digests, so the nature of the bug can be checked.

VM currently demands RFC 934 compliant digest.  If you give
vm-burst-digest a prefix arg, it will allow for some slop in the
format.  Otherwise non-conformant digests will be split in
strange places.  In the works are VM support for RFC 1153 and RFC
1154 digests.

RFC 1153 is basically a codification of existing practice, as far
as Internet digests are concerned.  While I don't think it is as
useful as RFC 934, it is at long last something that's _written_,
so implementors no longerhave to guess.

RFC 1154 actually is a proposal for general encoding of different
message types on the Internet.  I can see multi-media documents
being shipped using the RFC 1154 form.