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/


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