Re: [Tony Graham <tgraham@mulberrytech.com>] Re: XT: I/O of iso-8859-1 characters?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se> writes:

> The list server appended a string (non-MIME-ish) to the article which
> break base64 encoding. I see this quite often, perhaps base64-decode-*
> could have a parameter to make it return what has been decoded (and
> update the buffer) when it fails, instead of just aborting the
> decoding and return nil. A patch looks pretty straightforward.

Hm.  Well, it sounds simple enough, but isn't it kinda yucky to add
code to guess what bits are "really" part of a message and which ones
aren't?  Guessing usually results in people getting hurt and lots of
crying and confusion in the end.  

> (One could fix the mailing list software too :-))

Yup.  One more reason (the bazillionth-and-one reason) why mailing
list software should never, ever, neverever, alter the contents of
bodies of the messages it distributes.

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