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From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Who comments out the From_ lines?
Message-ID: <1990Oct25.152920.19278@erbe.se>
Date: 25 Oct 90 15:29:20 GMT
References: <1990Oct21.160918.9684@smsc.sony.com> <8134@gollum.twg.com> <2222@sunic.sunet.se> <2597@cirrusl.UUCP>
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In article <2597@cirrusl.UUCP>, dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) writes:

|> One day, when I invent a mail handler, it will use ^A-stuffing to solve
|> the problem.  The message separater will be <cr>^A^A^A^A<cr>.  If the
|> string ^A^A^A^A appears anywhere else, it will get ^A-stuffed into
|> ^A^A^A^A^A, and get de-stuffed by the user agent.

And in my mail handler, I think that I will keep a count of the number of characters
in a message before each message in the mailbox. That way, a message can contain
virtually anything and besides, reading it into the UA would be faster since I don't
have to scan each line for a message separator.
-- 
Robert Claeson                  |Reasonable mailers: rclaeson@erbe.se
ERBE DATA AB                    |      Dumb mailers: rclaeson%erbe.se@sunet.se
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