From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/78877 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric S Fraga Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus is ruining my chances of a long line base64 romance Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 19:34:20 +0100 Message-ID: <87oc2x8bmb.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> References: <874o4qsli7.fsf@jidanni.org> <87sjsa72d1.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1305916478 7298 80.91.229.12 (20 May 2011 18:34:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 18:34:38 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M27177=ding+2Daccount=gmane.org@lists.math.uh.edu Fri May 20 20:34:33 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QNUWt-0008Sk-WC for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 20 May 2011 20:34:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QNUWs-0001PB-U2 for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 20 May 2011 13:34:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QNUWr-0001P6-W4 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 20 May 2011 13:34:29 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QNUWp-0005kc-Ok for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 20 May 2011 13:34:28 -0500 Original-Received: from vscane-b.ucl.ac.uk ([144.82.108.141]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QNUWm-0005wI-VQ for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 20 May 2011 20:34:25 +0200 Original-Received: from [85.210.143.40] (helo=localhost) by vscane-b.ucl.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QNUWj-0003OV-CN for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 20 May 2011 19:34:21 +0100 X-Face: av6A"vZ{AypDB`d^.T35oG%$E*Qh]4F)K=*$-NHz5{7WZfAFQFB]F@gf}l9`XLs9(iD?D/! nafKE,S#G!4W/flj=9(U{]t'lP,,5~:s*~;kKR Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Riley's message of "Fri, 20 May 2011 17:40:36 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-UCL-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the UCL Helpdesk, helpdesk@ucl.ac.uk for more information X-UCL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-UCL-MailScanner-From: e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:78877 Archived-At: Richard Riley writes: > asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sj=C3=B8gren) writes: > >> On Fri, 20 May 2011 00:28:16 +0800, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote: >> >>> And gnus cannot deal with my potential dates mail. >> >> The email you included has line lengths of 800 and 190 chars every other >> line of encoded content. >> >> RFC 2045 specifies a maximum line length of MIME Content-Transfer-Encodi= ng: >> base64 of 76 chars. >> >> Please fix it. >> >> Best regards, > > Since the chance of thousands of sites that send email even being aware > of "RFC 2045" it seems more intelligent and professional to cover the > likely scenario that its not met .. in the client. But if you are going to use a specific MIME encoding, doesn't it make sense to follow the rules...? Encouraging bad behaviour is not necessarily the best option. In any case, the response from OP was rather rude, IMO. --=20 : Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.50.1 + No Gnus v0.= 18