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This error seems to indicate that LISTSERV is incorrectly diagnosing a perfectly good post as a delivery error. Why?

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This error seems to indicate that LISTSERV is incorrectly diagnosing a perfectly good post as a delivery error. Why?

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This error is normally generated on an otherwise good reply to a list because the poster (or the poster’s mail client) has quoted the entire text of the message he or she is replying to in the body of the reply. Normally this would not be an issue, but if the quoted text includes the RFC822 headers from the original message and if the quoting character (for instance, “>”) has a space between it and the lines of the original message, LISTSERV will reject the message as a possible delivery error notice. For instance, quoting like this: >From: Joe User is perfectly OK, but > From: Joe User is not. In the first example, LISTSERV ignores “>From” because the complete word it is looking for is “From:”. If there is a space as in the second example, LISTSERV finds the word “From:” and rejects the message. (LISTSERV evaluates words as whole units, ie, it looks at message lines as space-delimited character strings and anything between two consecutive spaces is