Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/06/01/07:33:56
In article <199605310004 DOT UAA29207 AT delorie DOT com>
dj AT delorie DOT com "DJ Delorie" writes:
>
> > The double dots are also present in the WWW mail archive, so it is probably
> > a problem with conversion from NNTP.
>
> The mail -> news gateway was adding the dot in accordance with the
> NNTP spec, but was adding it too often. I've updated it, and
> hopefully it will not do this any more. Just in case, here's
> a dot-started line sent from mail:
>
> dotted
>
> And here's a dot on a line by itself (which should be dot-quoted, but
> should look OK in news as well):
Well, I'm reading this in a newsreader which was getting the dots normally,
but I see no dot, as my quoted text shows.
..splitbung
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