on 24/9/02 6:45 pm, The Fool at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> From: Richard Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> The Fool said: >> >>> The real question is what kind of filtering software inserted ">" >>> before 'From', after my sending and before my recieving. >> >> As far as I know, all mail transfer agents do that so that computers >> using Unix mailboxes don't get confused and think that a leading "From" >> is a new email. > > If all unixices have such bad parsing that they can't tell the difference > between message headers and message bodies, it's no wonder very few > outside the high end corporate world use them.
There are about 6 million desktop computers running some version of Unix - 3 million or so Linux, 3 million or so Mac OS X (increasing at > 3 million a year). And another few million servers and workstations running Linux and other Unix apart from the really big expensive stuff from Sun and IBM. -- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
