Re: Asterisk at the beginning of a line in an email message.

[Steve]

On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:

> > I haven't yet checked whether an asterisk in the
> > middle of the line, at the end of the line, or
> > multiple asterisks has similar effect, or even perhaps
> > an attempt to escape the asterisk with \*
> 
> There is no problem with the DOS Arachne email client
> when sending an email message having an asterisk in the
> middle of a line or at the end of a line.  If an asterisk
> appears as the first character at the beginning of a line,
> then the message won't fly.  "Mail Upload Aborted" error.
> This happens to me on two different machines running
> Arachne.

  Same here.  If I put an asterisk at the end of a 
line, it flies fine.  Only the begin-line asterisk
causes the cgi-bin directory listing inclusion.

 - Steve