ralph@lasso.UUCP (Ralph P. Sobek) (03/02/88)
I have just recovered #60 from one of the BITNET servers, and I found out
why, in that case and probably more generally, the file was truncated in the
initial version sent to me. The problem was due to a lone period (.) at
the beginning of a line!! Some USENET (i.e., UNIX) mailers use exactly
*that* representation to terminate a message.
Is it possible to filter out such lines or precede them with "\" as do some
other digests, before sending the digest out over the netwaves?
Thanks in advance,
Ralph P. Sobek
p.s. For contributors, would you please desist in putting such lines (".")
into your communications.
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