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7 Aug 2024 23:21:47 EDT (-0400)
  Re: New news interface (beta)  
From: Mike Williams
Date: 18 Aug 2001 14:28:59
Message: <8NzUOBA0wff7Ewa$@econym.demon.co.uk>
Wasn't it Elias Pschernig who wrote:

>Speaking of signatures and the web interface, mine shows wrong on the website
>for some reason, the '.' in the 2nd line gets doubled..

Possible reason:

Lines beginning with '.' are a bit magic in news items. In particular, a
line containing only '.' is the end of article marker. So the news
server adds an extra '.' whenever it sees an actual message line that
happens to begin with one. The news client is supposed to look for lines
beginning with '..' and remove one '.'.

-- 
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure


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