Re: slrnpull shutdown problem

"John E. Davis" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.slrn.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 05:45:41 +0530, George Varughese <[email protected]> said:
>It says, starting with a dot, but the one here is a dot by itself, right

Any line in the message that begins with a dot is to be prefixed by
another one.  So:

    .foo   --> ..foo
    .      --> ..
    <end>  --> .

There is no ambiguity here.

>? Just out of curiosity, how does the server distinguish between 
>intended and accidental dots by itself ? Does
>it continue parsing the text even after the EOM dot to do this ? Could 
>it be that the "spammer" did
>something intentionally ?

No, the server failed to prefix the line containing the dot.

I hope this helps.
Thanks,
--John

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