[thechat] Devious spam
Dean Mah
dmah at shaw.ca
Mon Jun 23 10:46:24 CDT 2003
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 07:24:59AM -0700, Terry Fowler wrote:
>
> --- rudy <rudy937 at rogers.com> wrote:
>
> ________________________________________________________________
>
> A LIST APART 1.44 24 April 1998
>
> ________________________________________________________________
>
> <!--A Moderated Daily Digest for People Who Make
> Websites-->
>
> >From pixels to prose, coding to content.
> ______@
>
>
> If you've ever wondered why there's a greaterthan sign
> in front of the "From pixels to prose" it's because of
> me. :) Way back in 1998 I was using NS Messenger 3.0
> (for some reason 4.0 was crashing on me several times
> a
> day) and A LIST APART was getting broken into two
> pieces. I exchanged email with Zeldman and Brian Platz
> for a while and Brian determined that NS was
> interpreting a "From" that was on the left margin was
> a
> "FROM:".
>
> Well, I just thought I'd share.
The mbox (or Berkeley standard format) mailbox format uses 'From ' to
delimit messages in the mailbox. MTAs using this format will prepend
a '>' to any line in the body that begins with 'From '.
http://www.reedmedia.net/misc/mail/mailbox-formats.html
Dean
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