> From: Mark Delany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 16:52:17 -0700
>
> At 05:54 PM Friday 7/30/99, Chris Garrigues wrote:
> >One way to think about it is as defining a "network standard conf-break
> >character" which systems are expected to convert to and from in order to
>
>
> Yep. A standard conf-break may not be a bad idea, but it doesn't avoid the
> confusion that Scott raised that people will confuse or assume that the qmail
> conf-break is the same as the VERP conf-break.
Note that exactly this problem comes up when people write programs to talk to the
SMTP port and assume that \n will work as an end-of-line.
I wonder if it might actuall be better to make the network standard conf-break be
different than qmail's to make it clear that a conversion needs to occur.
Chris
P.S. Mark, I got an bounce saying that you no longer work at mira.net after
my last mail.
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