> No, I meant something else. I shall try to illustrate it:
>
> PART I
>
> ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
>
> PART II
>
> I have here two parts, and a line made of 72 times the character
> '?'. In this case it is all well. BUT: if the line consists of
> 72 times the character '=' (equal-sign), then our mailer splits
> this mail in two parts. The first part has a "from" and "to",
> and the second part has "{from=????" and "to=????".
> These two parts are now separate in my mail-system. But they
> are afterwards sorted in alphabetical order, and '?' comes first,
> before 'A'. So the two parts have lost each other.
>
> I think you have a line with 72 consequtive (spelling?) '=' in
> your signature, so that signature becomes split up from your mail.
> Hope I have made myself more clear this time.
>
 
CHris is right, but stopped reading.  WHat Hans means is hi mailreader thingy
reads a mail message in, if it has 72 equals symbols or more in a row, it
chops the message in two and puts in in two mail files, part one, and part two.
Part one says from you, the other says from ????. His mailer sorts the mail
alphabetically by sender.  So if your account was acsg@ubvmn and you got mail
from dfrt@ufdfhg his mail would look like this.
 
1 acsg@ubvmn  Hi all I love you!
2 dfrt@ufdfhg Lstown-l sucks!
3 ????        ????
 
numbers one and three being parts one and two, respectively.
Which is a pain when you have 100 new messages a day.  SO in other words dont
use '='s as a divider, use '-'s!  8*>
 
Jon
 
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