From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/45470 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: yEnc support in Gnus? Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 18:47:02 -0700 Organization: The Eyrie Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <20020627184848.A14291@krusty.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1025574490 15851 127.0.0.1 (2 Jul 2002 01:48:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 01:48:10 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17PCm1-00047W-00 for ; Tue, 02 Jul 2002 03:48:10 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 17PClW-0004K6-00; Mon, 01 Jul 2002 20:47:38 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 01 Jul 2002 20:48:01 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA05564 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 20:47:50 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 16485 invoked by alias); 2 Jul 2002 01:47:11 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 16480 invoked from network); 2 Jul 2002 01:47:10 -0000 Original-Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (171.64.13.23) by gnus.org with SMTP; 2 Jul 2002 01:47:10 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 15569 invoked by uid 50); 2 Jul 2002 01:47:02 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Simon Josefsson's message of "Mon, 01 Jul 2002 21:34:51 +0200") Original-Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp, sparc-sun-solaris2.6) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45470 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45470 Simon Josefsson writes: > So, what would be required to implement a better solution? What does > yEnc provide that the existing MIME binary CTE and the Content-MD5 > techniques doesn't already? Escaping of CR/LF/NUL? Right. > Content-MD5 doesn't work with message/partial though, but I remember > seeing a I-D defining Content-Hash, or something similar, for HTTP that > fixes that. > Perhaps we could ask the people that has anti-yEnc web sites if they > want to help define a better scheme (some of the web sites provide > suggested MIME aware alternatives, altough not in I-D format). is a good start. -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)