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From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
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Subject: Re: Inferno for FreeBSD.
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Ollivier Robert writes:
>According to Wolfram Schneider:
>> Why we use a ">" and not a space or tab? A ">" may destroy 
>> latex documents (see UNIX-HATERS handbook page 79-81).
>There are several ways to handle it:
>1. use "quoted-printable" as C-T-E: and =46 in place of "F",

I vote for 1. It works for all mail clients and does not
destroy the mail body.


>2. use >From (the Standard Way(TM)),
>3. use Content-Length (only SVR4's mail generates it).
>It depends on both your MTA and MUA...

Wolfram