From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/59887 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Zack Weinberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus does not format my spam correctly! Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 19:15:24 -0800 Message-ID: <87d5usj7ar.fsf@codesourcery.com> References: <874qg5m8qf.fsf@codesourcery.com> <87acpwkv0m.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1109128522 7852 80.91.229.2 (23 Feb 2005 03:15:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 03:15:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M8428@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Feb 23 04:15:13 2005 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13] ident=mail) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D3mzR-0005Om-RC for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 04:15:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1D3n01-0008UX-00; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 21:15:41 -0600 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1D3mzt-0008UR-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 21:15:33 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1D3mzr-00034I-68 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 21:15:31 -0600 Original-Received: from admin.voldemort.codesourcery.com ([65.74.133.9] helo=mail.codesourcery.com) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1D3mzp-0008Mw-00 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 04:15:29 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 26911 invoked from network); 23 Feb 2005 03:15:24 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost (HELO taltos.codesourcery.com) (zack@127.0.0.1) by mail.codesourcery.com with SMTP; 23 Feb 2005 03:15:24 -0000 Original-Received: by taltos.codesourcery.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 22 Feb 2005 19:15:24 -0800 Original-To: Miles Bader In-Reply-To: <87acpwkv0m.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> (Miles Bader's message of "Wed, 23 Feb 2005 08:57:45 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu X-MailScanner-From: ding-owner+m8428@lists.math.uh.edu X-MailScanner-To: ding-account@gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:59887 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:59887 Miles Bader writes: > Zack Weinberg writes: >> The vertical bars were presumably intended to line up neatly, forming >> a nice little table, but the spaces are too wide, or the horizontal >> lines are too short, or both. Confusion over which characters are >> double-wide and which are single? Are the fonts not really >> fixed-width? Inquiring minds, &c. > > I think the people making this sort of thing are not usually well versed > with the notion of "quality" or "testing"; it may have looked OK on > their model XYZ word-processor but completely screwy to _everyone_ who > receives it. Fair enough. This is hardly causing me lost sleep, nor is it anywhere near the most important thing I wish Gnus did better. > I note that you sent it in UTF-8; was that the coding system used in the > original spam? Nope. | MIME-Version: 1.0 | Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-2022-JP" | Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I can try to extract the original text and send it along uuencoded or something, but in view of what you say above, I'm not sure it's worth bothering...? zw