Re: Help: FAQ format problem

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Julian Ladisch (julian.ladisch@student.uni-halle.de)
Sat, 19 Sep 1998 01:13:05 +0200 (METDST)


Mike Holloway wrote:

>Could a nice person please look at my FAQ and tell me what the problem is
>with Part 1.
>http://www.faqs.org/faqs/by-newsgroup/bit/bit.listserv.transplant.html

Your FAQ Part 1 contains the line

From Kandy S. Florida <Kandysfl@AOL.COM>

(without the space at the beginning).

There was probably a change of your e-mail software or its
configuration after 1998/07/12, because it changed the line
according to RFC 2049 3. (8) <http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2049.html>:

: Some mail transport agents will corrupt data that includes certain
: literal strings. In particular, a period (".") alone on a line is
: known to be corrupted by some (incorrect) SMTP implementations, and a
: line that starts with the five characters "From " (the fifth character
: is a SPACE) are commonly corrupted as well. A careful composition
: agent can prevent these corruptions by encoding the data (e.g., in the
: quoted-printable encoding using "=46rom " in place of "From " at the
: start of a line, and "=2E" in place of "." alone on a line).

Try an additional space before the "From " or something else to avoid
those five characters to appear at the beginning of a line.

Julian



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