Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hao!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!GSB-WHY.STANFORD.EDU!A.Eric From: A.Eric@GSB-WHY.STANFORD.EDU (Eric M. Berg) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Another example of the joys of BITNET mail Message-ID: <12381641518.31.A.ERIC@GSB-WHY.Stanford.EDU> Date: 12 Mar 88 05:08:13 GMT Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: A.ERIC@GSB-HOW.STANFORD.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 15 [Extracted from a recent digest posted to the TeXhax mailing list...] Date: 21 Feb 88 From: Malcolm Subject: Immoderate notes: brief pause in texhax; issue 17 sliced up %%% Issue 17 was sliced in half by some unkind IBM systems using SMTP. Glenn %%% Vanderburg informs me that the reason was a line that was longer than %%% 80 columns got wrapped, which resulted in the next line beginning with %%% a period. SMTP though that this meant it was about to get a command. So %%% it went through the remainder of the digest, looking for a command, which %%% of course it didn't find -- only more TeXhax. -------