From: Damian Yerrick <DONT DOT YOU DOT DAREd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comSEND DOT SPAM>
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Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 18:35:47 GMT
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On Wed, 01 Mar 2000 10:15:45 -0500, "Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH]"
<moscoop AT americasm01 DOT nt DOT com> wrote:

>Damian Yerrick wrote:
>
>> >> It's on Usenet; DOS line endings are the standard on Usenet.
>> >But maybe not on the mailing list ;-)
>> What is the standard for line endings in Internet mail?
>
>I believe the standard calls for "\r\n" as the line-delimiter.  But some
>programs don't obey that standard anyways.

So I guess DOS "\r\n" endings are the Internet standard.  It's the Mac
("\r") and UNIX ("\n") that are broken.

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