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[Richard B. Gilbert]

Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article <j9ydnYP0n-mjH8TRnZ2dnUVZ_qmdnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
>> You are probably one of the ONLY two people here who insist on reading 
>> mail/news on a VMS system.   Face it!  VMS has been on life support for 
>> at least the last fifteen years!
> 
>    What's so wrong about reading a VMS news group on a VMS system?

There's nothing intrinsically wrong with it.  I was objecting to a 
complaint about VMS mail and how it handles message formats that are 
quite common and handled correctly by most mail readers.

Do you see two spaces following my first sentence in the paragraph 
above?  Apparently VMS MAIL treats this as an error and replaces the 
second space with "=A0".  Somebody might want to report the behavior as 
a bug.  I can't see that it does anything useful, unless you consider 
annoying VAXman useful!  It may be fun but it's not useful! ;-)

I'd report it myself but since I'm not a paying customer, I'm not 
entitled to be taken seriously.