From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/25255 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [Tony Graham ] Re: XT: I/O of iso-8859-1 characters? Date: 24 Sep 1999 20:09:11 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035162674 13049 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:11:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:11:14 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA02097 for ; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 14:09:24 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAB18333; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 13:09:21 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 24 Sep 1999 13:09:43 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA07145 for ; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 13:09:29 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from quimbies.gnus.org (sparky.gnus.org [193.69.4.146]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA02064 for ; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 14:07:28 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by quimbies.gnus.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA30307; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 20:09:55 +0200 Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Gustav Mahler & Uri Caine's _Mahler In Toblach-I Went Out This Morning Over The Countryside (cd1)_: "Now Will The Sun Rise As Brightly-From Songs Of Death Of Children" Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Simon Josefsson's message of "13 Aug 1999 13:34:55 +0200" User-Agent: Gnus/5.070097 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.97) XEmacs/21.2 (Sumida) X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ 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. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen