Top Posting and company disclaimer
Jim Cornette
fc-cornette at insight.rr.com
Wed Mar 30 15:02:57 UTC 2005
James Wilkinson wrote:
>
>
> That dot would be quoted by SMTP servers to stop the effect you wanted.
> It then would be unquoted at the other end of the SMTP link.
>
> Most people these days wouldn't expect a dot on a line by itself to
> terminate an e-mail, and those that would expect it probably wouldn't
> want it happening in normal e-mail.
>
> Google for RFC 2821 and look at section 4.5.2 for details.
>
> James.
>
Thanks for the reference. I noticed that the dot was still there when I
sent out the email. It seems that I tried this no more than 3 months
back and it did not include anything that followed the dot.
Jim
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