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In article <A5mdnUwOdJEcVsTRnZ2dnUVZ_uKdnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
>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.

This has nothing to do with VMS mail.

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