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From: era@iki.fi
Subject: Re: Trailing whitespace stripping
Date: 30 Oct 2003 19:08:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877k2mbqor.fsf@era.iki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v9znfizocx.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de>

On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 17:23:10 +0100, Reiner Steib
<4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> posted to gmane.emacs.gnus.general:
 > I think it should be possible to send both, *inline* patches and
 > text/* attachments, without any whitespace stripping, because some
 > mailing lists (or list software) doesn't allow attachments at all.

Isn't one of the purposes of Quoted-Printable encoding is to allow for
an unambiguous and transport-safe way to preserve trailing spaces?
Merely making sure you don't strip them when you send them is hardly
sufficient (as in, adequately robust) in any event.

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2003-10-30 16:23 Reiner Steib
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