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[Richard B. Gilbert]

VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> 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.
> 

Then please explain just what it IS about.  I thought we were talking 
about how VMS MAIL handles a period followed by two space characters. 
VAXman reports that his VMS MAIL client renders this construct incorrectly.