Can anybody help me understand what my Dutch friend is trying to tell me? He said that messages longer than 72 x "=" are split; I responded asking what he meant; his response still leaves me in the dark. -- Kevin Berland for C18-L - - The original note follows - - Received: from HDETUD1.TUDelft.NL by PSUVM.PSU.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 4549; Fri, 25 Jan 91 12:38:10 EST Received: from HDETUD1.BITNET (RCDILAA) by HDETUD1.TUDelft.NL (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 0264; Fri, 25 Jan 91 18:14:25 MET Date: Fri, 25 Jan 91 18:01:15 MET From: Hans van der Laan <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: January 8 To: BCJ@PSUVM In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 15 Jan 91 18:43 EST On Tue, 15 Jan 91 18:43 EST you said: > I'm afraid I do not understand the problem you mention. Does >your mailer split lines more than 72 characters, or mail messages >more than 72 lines long? If the 1st is the case, I can edit the >mail to be 70 characters wide... > >- Kevin Sorry, Kevin, I have been away. 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. Greetings from Holland. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans van der Laan Bitnet: RCDILAA@HDETUD1 Advisor S-mail: P.O. Box 354 Delft University of Technology NL-2600-AJ Delft Computing Centre The Netherlands