On Fri, 25 Sep 2015, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2015-08-31 15:41:01 -0500, Don Armstrong wrote: > > For the record, lines starting with From are often escaped with > to > > avoid issues with mbox. So Vincent didn't purposefully prepend > to > > that. > > That's Debian's mailing-list software that did.
Yes. We've been escaping From with > for decades now. It's probably no longer useful, but it was useful at some point in time. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Love is... a complex sequence of neurochemical reactions that makes people behave like idiots. It's similar to intoxication, but the hangover's even worse. -- J. Jacques _Questionable Content_ #1039 http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1039
