chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) (06/06/88)
In article <4838@teddy.UUCP> jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson) writes: >For some reason, people assume that a dot beginning a line is a >"dangerous sequence": It is NOT! What they are thinking of is a dot >ALONE on a line: This causes some mailers to terminate reading the >mail. It is silly to prefix EVERY line starting with a dot (nroff >source) because of this. I have received mail (nroff/troff files) where all the leading dots were doubled, because some broken SMTP server did not unquote them. Leading periods do constitute a `dangerous sequence' in some broken mailers. -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris