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Re: uhoh - bind on unstable (repost)



On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 at 01:23 GMT, Karsten M. Self penned:
> 
> --eAnxKwVhzStH6fSc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding:
> quoted-printable
> 
> on Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 01:50:27PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman
> (spam@bounceswo= osh.org) wrote:
>> Apparently, my post got cut short (could it be that a line containing
>> only a period would signify end of post?). =20
> 
> Yes:   ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc821.txt  See 3.1.
> 
> Your news/mail gateway appears to be broken.  Ordinarially, content
> lines of a single '.' are doubled to prevent SMTP end-of-data
> interpretation.
> 

Right-o.  Either slrn or leafnode.  Either way, a line with a single
period isn't something I normally need ... (yes, it's a problem, but no,
it's not enough of a problem for me to spend the time isolating it and
reporting it).

-- 
monique



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