Thursday, August 10, 2000, 3:43:04 PM, Steve Lamb, wrote:
SL> Thursday, August 10, 2000, 12:27:31 PM, Joe wrote:
>> Does it happen to everyone else? Please check that message you recently
>> received from Leif and let me know if that ">" appeared in your copy.
SL> Well, see, this is where us, nerds, people in the know, you know, the ones
SL> who know the standards and abide by them instead of break them know that most
SL> servers separate message by a line that starts with "From ". Any line in the
SL> body that starts with that sequence needs to be escaped and the code to escape
it is the >> character. The POP server is supposed to remove any encoding
SL> when sending to you but, alas, a lot of the newest ones do not.
Maybe the POP server(s) just aren't configured correctly?
There might also be a reason (unrelated to servers) that this had never happened
to me before, with Eudora, so I think the jury is still out on this one.
But please feel free to ignore my messages, because if that horrible day ever comes
that I have to rely on people like you for answers, I'll take this computer and throw
it in the ocean.
SL> But, of course, don't take my word for it, chances are I'm just yanking
SL> your chain.
Steve, I wouldn't take your word for *anything.*
Not if it was chipped in granite, gilded in gold, or just scribbled on the wall of
an outdoor crapper somewhere.
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Joe Finocchiaro
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