Re: Dash-escaping clarification

[David Shaw <dshaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 10:25:36PM +0000, Adam Back wrote:
> 
> Let me modify that.  I just tried a few combinations with PGP and it
> dash escapes leading '-', and 'From ' but pretty much nothing else.
> 
> So to describe existing behavior we could say:
> 
> - dash escape leading '-'
> - dash escape 'From '
> 
> and that's it.

I disagree.  Tomorrow will bring some other thing that needs to be
protected against modification.  A single rule that "anything may be
dash-escaped" is simpler and more general than two specific rules.

David