[thechat] Devious spam

[Dean Mah]

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