On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Luke C Gavel wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Bret Hughes wrote:
>
> >
> > I am suprised that one dot on a line by itself does not hose your mail.
> > I believe a period and a newline tells sendmail and fetchmail for that
> > matter that the end is here. Actaully not sure about the sendmail part
> > but I know it confused the hell out of fetchmail and I have to go in and
> > manually delete the offending mail. and as a result it won't get read.
> >
> > Bret
> >
> Exactly my point. This is one RFC(821) that needs amending.
>
Not really. The Internet community has to agree on some sort of string
terminator to signal "end of message". There has to be some sort of
standard. No matter what we choose there will always be someone who
accidentally types it at the prompt and hoses a message.
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