From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/54572 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: era@iki.fi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Trailing whitespace stripping Date: 30 Oct 2003 19:08:38 +0200 Organization: People Who Are Not Old Enough For Unix (Honorary Member Emeritus) Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <877k2mbqor.fsf@era.iki.fi> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1067533739 15222 80.91.224.253 (30 Oct 2003 17:08:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 17:08:59 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M3113@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Oct 30 18:08:57 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AFGI4-0001Ns-00 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 18:08:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AFGHx-00018x-00; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:08:49 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AFGHr-00017x-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:08:43 -0600 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 429843A0070 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:08:42 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AFGHo-0006yH-00 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 18:08:40 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AFGHn-0006y9-00 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 18:08:39 +0100 Original-Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AFGHm-0003wY-00 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 18:08:38 +0100 Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54572 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54572 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. /* era */ -- The email address era the contact information Just for kicks, imagine at iki dot fi is heavily link on my home page at what it's like to get spam filtered. If you 500 pieces of spam for want to reach me, see instead. each wanted message.