At some point around Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 12:13:35 +1100, Jason Stokes said:
> Heracles wrote:
> >
> > >From time to time, usually after a few hours on the net, Netscape
> > will crash and autoclose with the only error given being "bus
> > error". It has only happened since I upgraded to Netscape 4.75.
> > Any ideas? It is not much of a hassle, but I would prefer not to
> > have the problem.
>
> Yes, Netscape leaks memory like a sieve. Even while idle it seems to do
> it. It also can create dangling pointers. If that happens it'll crash
> with a "bus error", which is actually a memory error. Answer: quit and
> restart Netscape every hour or so.
>
> Here's a queston: why is "From" always quoted with a > if it appears on
> the first column of an email message? Can't SMTP servers distinguish
> between "From" in the header section and "From" in the body of the
> message?
That is part of RFC822, if memory serves. (Or one of the email
related rfcs, anyway) see:
http://www.freesoft.org/CIE/RFC/Orig/rfc886.txt
http://www.freesoft.org/CIE/RFC/Orig/rfc822.txt
The "From blah@blah $DATE" line is the one true From line, any
others are just prettification. As far as I'm aware, anyways...
-Thom
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