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| From: | Wim van Dommelen |
| Subject: | Re: Newbie problems |
| Date: | Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:26:04 +0200 |
On 15 Apr 2013, at 08:09 , Thomas Scharkowski wrote:
-------- Original-Nachricht --------Thomas Scharkowski <t.scharkowski <at> t-online.de> writes:">>" (without quotes) is missing at the end of your code.It's more likely that your mail reader interpreted ">>" as a quoted line and didn't show it to you. The final ">>" came through just fine for me.Hi James,you are right, I looked at the source of the mail - Thunderbird converts the >>.Silly!
No, that is Internet-history, starting around 1980/1981 with Eric Allman (UCB) boosting email with the first sendmail implementation in the same time-frame as TCP was starting to be used (that is just after lifting the restriction of max. 256 computers in a network if I remember correctly!). Not only Thunderbird "does" this, but as soon as in the whole email-chain there is one component based on SMTP text- files and the good old sendmail, this phenomenom will appear. Email- programs and mailers using text-files have to get rid of this to protect themselves from silly easy hacks with overwritting files using ">>" and some other problems.
It is annoying, but part of our digital life. I don't think we will ever get rid of this, get used to it.
Regards, Wim.
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