On Wed, 26 Apr 1995 23:09:19 +0200 Eric Thomas said:
>On Wed, 26 Apr 1995 21:11:17 GMT "David W. Baker" <[log in to unmask]> said:
>
>>   Anyways, by question  is about what delimits,  without exception, the
>>various  messages within  a message  archive. Currently,  I'm using  any
>>lines which  contain nothing  other than  73 equal signs  (=) to  be the
>>delimiter between  messages. Is  this always the  case? What  if someone
>>mails a message which has such a line within the body?
>
>Yes, it is always the case. If someone puts this in the body, the data is
>shifted one column.
>
>  Eric
 
And it messes up the archives, too.  I used to use a line of
"=" just above my .sig, but this sometimes caused
problems when searching and retrieving items from the
archives.
 
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