P3D Re: PSSP talk: barriers to entry (really ">")

["Greg Wageman" <gjw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Andrew Scott Beals <bandy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>


>Well, partially right.  It does not come from an RFC.  It is a
hold-over
>from Bell Labs, since they used "From " at the beginning of a line to
>indicate the beginning of the next mail message in the inbound mail
file.


Well, you're right.  I went digging into the RFC's, but found that I was
misremembering the "transparency" feature for "." handling with ">".
The "From" line escaping is done by bin-mail, aka System V "mail", which
is usually the delivery agent on Unix boxes.

>Needless to say, most unix systems still store your inbound mail in a
flat
>file and need some sort of separator, so they still do the > thing.


Yup.

     -Greg W. (gjw@xxxxxxxxxx)





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