Dunno about anyone else, but that seems like some kind of poetic justice. Preserving the pseudo-integrity of garbage seems like it should be very low on the list of priorities.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of David Given > Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 7:28 AM > To: obsd-misc > Subject: Mailing list issues (was: Microsoft gets the Most > Secure Operating Systems award) > > Die Gestalt wrote: > [...] > > ScheiC[1F]e? Merde? > > Incidentally, from Gestalt's headers: > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > I've been noticing for a while that openbsd-misc appears to be > unilaterally changing the transfer-encoding header to 7bit without > actually reencoding the message body, which is just not on. Gestalt's > message arrived with a 0x1F control code in it because of > this, which is > extremely antisocial. (I changed that in the quoted text above!) > > I appreciate the sentiment in trying to keep the messages > clean, but if > people want to change the transfer encoding or charset, they really > *have to* reencode while they're at it, or the result is nonsense --- > you can see that Gestalt's message is billed as 7bit UTF-8. Not to > mention that it's deeply unfriendly to anyone who doesn't > speak us-ascii. > > What mailing list software does the list use? > > -- > David Given > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
