From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/13151 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vladimir Volovich Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: proposal on improving uudecoding Date: 05 Dec 1997 16:10:09 +0300 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035152568 7749 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:22:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:22:48 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA30729 for ; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 06:09:54 -0800 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA28634 for ; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 08:12:51 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAN01994; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 08:11:43 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 05 Dec 1997 07:31:20 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA29473 for ; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 07:31:14 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 3366 invoked by uid 504); 5 Dec 1997 13:31:02 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 3329 invoked from network); 5 Dec 1997 13:22:29 -0000 Original-Received: from ns.vsu.relarn.ru (HELO cc.vsu.ru) (root@194.226.24.1) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 5 Dec 1997 13:22:24 -0000 Original-Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cc.vsu.ru (8.8.8-vsu/8.8.8) with UUCP id QAA18924 for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 16:20:53 +0300 Original-Received: (from vvv@localhost) by vvv.vrn.ru (8.8.6/8.8.5) id QAA03945; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 16:10:10 +0300 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Stainless Steel Rat's message of "04 Dec 1997 18:49:33 -0500" Original-Lines: 25 X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.17/Emacs 20.1 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13151 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13151 "SSR" == Stainless Steel Rat writes: VV> Some mailers insert blank lines into a uuencoded files, so that VV> they look like the following: SSR> I have yet to see one... but one that does is 100% broken. Certainly. Hmm, actually, not 100% because these messages *can* be restored in their original form by removing empty lines before uudecoding. ;-) SSR> An MUA or MTA should never arbitrarilly change the contents of a SSR> message. Yes, but such a weird MUAs *do* exist (mainly these are some FidoNet MUAs which change the contents of included files because they interpret the `>' characters as a citation prefixes and want to make the included text more `readable' %-) ). And there *is* a simple work-around: just remove blank lines automagically before uudecoding (anyway, these blank lines should not appear inside a uuencoded texts, and thus this change won't break anything). -- With best regards, Vladimir.