[python-win32] Object type puzzle

[Tim Roberts]

On 1/7/23 7:11 AM, Bob Kline wrote:

> As a very minor side note, just so you know, it looks like there's a
> bug in the mailing list software. I went back to the original of my
> previous post, and the ">" character which appears at the beginning of
> the paragraph beginning "From what I can tell ..." was not in the
> message that I sent, but was added by the mailing list, making it look
> as if that paragraph might have been part of the quoted message to
> which I was replying, instead of what it actually was (part of my own
> reply).

Ah, you youngsters who don't remember the glory days.  That's not a bug, 
it's a feature.

In the early days, mail messages were stored in a standard format called 
"mbox".  This was a simple, plain text format that just had the text of 
every message.  The separator between messages was a line that read 
"From <timr at probo.com> Sat Jan 07 11:14:59 2023".  So, any line in a 
message that started with the word "From" needed to be escaped to 
prevent it from being read as a separator. The traditional escapement 
was to change it to "> From".

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.