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Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Tue Nov 15 15:55:14 UTC 2005


Christoph Bier wrote:

> Christoph Bier schrieb am 15.11.2005 00:45:
> 
>> Derek Broughton schrieb am 14.11.2005 18:13:
>> 
>>>Christoph Bier wrote:
>> 
>>>>I also prefer newsgroups but this one isn't listed at my news
>>>>provider's server :-(. For this list I use the Gmane gateway but
>>>>actually it's not the same like a newsgroup.
>>>
>>>What's not the same about it?  [...]
>> 
>>>From the technical point of view it's very often incredible slow.
> ^-> it's not me that inserts this quotation mark! I already canceled
> my first email when I saw the quotation mark and sent the email
> again. But there's again this quotation mark that's not present in
> the email I sent ...

Never start a line with "from".  It's an age old hack to prevent damaging
people's mbox files.
-- 
derek





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