> From: William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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.
I run linux on this computer in addition to dos, win3.1, win98, winNt, win2k, among others. What exactly is your point? _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
