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

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3 total messages Started by Kurt Swanson Mon, 04 Jan 1993 10:14

#553

Author: Kurt Swanson
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 10:14

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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?
-- 
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

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

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Author: Chris Sherman
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 01:30

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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?

Simple.

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

#557

Author: 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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