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From: Tom Wheeley <tomw AT tsys DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: . problem with main/news gateway (was: Re: make deletes files needed?!)
Date: Fri, 31 May 96 22:37:18 GMT
Organization: City Zen FM
Lines: 27
Message-ID: <833582238snz@tsys.demon.co.uk>
References: <199605310004 DOT UAA29207 AT delorie DOT com>
Reply-To: tomw AT tsys DOT demon DOT co DOT uk
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp

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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