Re: Fwd: [ga] Why so long

[Don Brown <donbrown_l@inetconcepts.net>]

Yes. Thanks, Thomas.


Saturday, July 13, 2002, 4:09:44 AM, Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org> wrote:
TR> On 2002-07-12 10:32:45 -0500, Don Brown wrote:

[inserted '>>' character]

>>">From a slightly different perspective, a party can currently obtain
>>service from several different sources (SnapNames, included) and there
>>is competition between them. If ICANN approves WLS, then there will be
>>only one source. So, in that scope your statement is true, since ICANN
>>would be getting in the way of free enterprise and not fostering
>>competition."

TR> It's a very common problem which has its origins with the "mbox"  
TR> mail folder format first introduced in Version 6 AT&T Unix.  In  
TR> these mail folders, messages are stored as plain text, separated by  
TR> lines like this one:

TR>         From owner-ga@dnso.org  Sat Jul 13 10:30:00 2002

TR> Of course, when such a line occurs within a message, mail reading 
TR> software would get confused, and would detect a message separator in 
TR> the wrong place.

TR> For that reason, it's still common to escape such lines by  
prepending a ">>" characer in front of them.  

TR> (With MIME's quoted-printable or flowed text, you can play other  
TR> tricks to avoid the problem without changing what's presented to the 
TR> user.)




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