Re: 'import -r' file format?

Yngvar Folling (yngvar.folling@login.eunet.no)
Fri, 25 Oct 1996 17:04:51 +0200 (MET DST)

In article <KIlby0r1JUbY089yn@ccs.covici.com>,
covici@ccs.covici.com (John Covici) wrote:

> the #! rnews works quite well, but the UNIX mailbox format does not
> because lots of folks don't properly escape the from lines and yarn
> isn't very smart about figuring out whether its correct.

Well, isn't this the mail server's job? I have never received an
un-escaped line beginning with "From ". If I send a message to myself,
the > is inserted in the message if I didn't put it there myself.

Yngvar