On Tuesday, October 5, 2004, 20:37:04, Mica Mijatovic wrote: > We can use Morse too... did-it-ah-did-it. Ah, when we are already at > dots and dashes... did you notice that if you start a line with a > dot(s), then yahoo server adds two more? It also may alter thusly the > PGP signed text and make signature BAD. See this, I'll begin next three > lines with 1, 2, and 3 dots.
> .. is the first line. > ... is the second one. > .... is the third one. SMTP and POP3 protocols use a single dot on a line as end-of-message marker. Since this would prevent you from sending a dot on a line: . in the message body, all lines that start with a dot are escaped by prepending them with another dot, and it's the client's task to strip that dot from the line when displaying the message (and verifying it). . <- 1 .. <- 2 ...<- 3 -- < Jernej Simoncic ><><><><>< http://deepthought.ena.si/ > < for personal mail, replace guest.arnes.si with isg.si > 2 is not equal to 3 - not even for very large values of 2. -- Grabel's Law ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.00.00 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
