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Re: Why can't nn split digests in folders or articles?

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From: Kurt Swanson
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 09:25
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sherman@unx.sas.com (Chris Sherman) writes:
>In <1993Jan4.101448.11870@lth.se> kurt@dna.lth.se (Kurt Swanson) writes:
>>It's somewhat annoying, that a normally posted digest, which nn can
>>split, cannot be split after it has been saved into a folder.  Is
>>there any strong reason for this?

>The beginning of each new message may look like a new letter to the mail
>system (which might be used later to read the file).  So that no other
>folder reading program is confused by the digest headers, the digest headers
>are damanged.  (Go look).  You can undamage them if you wish and see what
>happens, but this is the reason.
>You will find that sometime like this happens if you send mail that 
>contains lines in the message part that could be confused as a mail
>header.  The mail system will damage those lines too so that the 
>next mail program won't be confused.

This "damage" is merely a "~" character placed in front of each
important header.  Our friendly nn program ought to be able to
recognize and deal with this...
-- 
Kurt Swanson, Dept. of Computer Science,
Lunds universitet.  Kurt.Swanson@dna.lth.se
-- 
Kurt Swanson, Dept. of Computer Science,
Lunds universitet.  Kurt.Swanson@dna.lth.se
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Subject: Re: Why can't nn split digests in folders or articles?
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