From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 28 3:53:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 634F137B417 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 03:53:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 99911 invoked by uid 100); 28 Nov 2001 11:53:20 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15364.53296.760655.58854@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 05:53:20 -0600 To: Christopher Farley Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The Stupid Virus going arround. In-Reply-To: <56069522@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Christopher Farley types: > Louis LeBlanc (leblanc+freebsd@keyslapper.org) wrote: > > Mutt allows you to use emacs, vi, or vim as your composer/viewer, in > > addition to the no frills (even compared to vi) builtin composer. You > > can even configure it to color certain text to indicate headers, > > quotes, addresses, etc., just by tweaking a mail.vim config. > While we're on the subject of editor/mail user agent interactions: > What is it that causes all lines in the message body beginning with the > word 'From' to be indented with a '>'?? That's a Unixism. The original Unix mail program prepended a line to each message to indicate the start of the message. The mail reader from that era looked for those lines when parsing a mailbox into message. The lines looked something like [pause to watch the Disk meter on gkrellm while my find grovels over my mail archives] this: From mwm Thu, 18 Nov 93 23:12:14 PST To prevent mail user agents from incorrectly finding the start of a message inside a message, any line that started "From " was translated to ">From " before delivery. Idealy, such mechanisms are removed before the user sees them, but that doesn't always happen. For more information, find a copy of "The Unix-Haters Handbook". No, let me change that - to become a more informed person, *read* a copy of "The Unix-Haters Handbook". Find out all the things that Unix did wrong that it's predecessors did right, and why Unix sucks. If you can't find the book - because the original owners are unwilling to loan them out, but will let you look at their Unix Barf Bag, you can read parts of it at . http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message