** Sometime around 23:35 -0400 9/22/98, George Buckner said:

>OK, LSoft, I've already tested this problem enough to know how to
>duplicate it:
>
>I've noticed recently that Listserv has a habit of inserting the
>">" character whenever a paragraph in the message begins with the
>word "From" (with an uppercase "F").  Thus a sentence that started
>with "F" now starts with ">F".
>
>By the way I'm running 1.8d.
>
>Why does Listserv have this "feature" ?

Don't blame LISTSERV, blame your MTA. Since any line starting with
"From " (note the missing colon) denotes the start of a new mail
message in the spool file, the MTA will insert a ">" in front of
the word "from" when it appears at the start of a record; this
prevents the MUA (or POP gateway) from misinterpreting the line as
the start of a new mail message.

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