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dsr_ on Jan 8, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: "mbox" is a family of several mutually incompatibl...

Now you now have n+1 standards to keep track of.

As a side effect, this breaks every reader which is unaware of it and handling binary content in mail (many, many messages) or languages or encodings which are space sensitive.

kijin on Jan 8, 2012 [–]

Binary content and non-ASCII characters are almost always base64-encoded, and base64 never produces a From_ sequence (because of the space).

Anyaway, I'm not endorsing the leading-space technique. I'm just observing that it's out there in the wild.

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