On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:34:47 -0600, Mark Zelden wrote: >On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:19:00 -0800, Edward Jaffe wrote: > >>On 2/10/2011 12:42 PM, Walt Farrell wrote: >>> Or, at least, something in the email client that John is using to reply to >>> messages. >> >>Possibly something "home grown". It doesn't identify itself with a >"User-Agent:" >>tag in the mail headers. >> > >He explained it when I asked him about it last year, but I can't recall >what the explanation was and a quick search of the archives didn't >find it. Of course it was buried in another thread. All I remember was >him saying was that it was a sporadic problem. >
I tried to explain it in my post of May 4, 2010. http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1005&L=ibm-main&P=16716 Since then, I have seen more examples of the fully-revealed subject line in the website of the assembler-list at http://listserv.uga.edu/archives/asm370.html most recently in the list of January 2011 posts. I am referring to the subject lines that begin with =?windows-1256 What it boils down to is that John's subject lines are using a format documented in RFC 2047, but the Listserv is not handling that format correctly when the subject text is broken up into pieces and the pieces are on separate lines. When the pieces are put together by the Listserv, whitespace between the pieces is supposed to be ignored, but the Listserv is inserting a space. My May 4 post goes into more detail. Bill ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
