Re: Last Call: 'The APPLICATION/MBOX Media-Type' to Proposed Standard

["Charles Lindsey" <chl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In <20040829203841.76170.qmail@xxxxxxxx> "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@xxxxxxxx> writes:

>Charles Lindsey writes:
>> you find it has been corrupted by all the '>' stuffing

>Certainly the old mboxo format should be nuked---but there are other
>mbox variants that don't corrupt messages.

>The mboxrd format inserts ">" in front of any line beginning "From ",
>">From ", ">>From", etc., and then inserts a "From " line at the top.
>This is trivially reversible. Readers recognize "From " as the start of
>a new message; readers strip ">" from ">From ", ">>From ", etc.

Yes, that is fine so long as you know that you are dealing with an mboxrd,
but in general you don't. Which is why the application/mbox type needs
parameters so that this information can be given (in cases where the
sender know it, of course).

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