From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/45506 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: yEnc support in Gnus? Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 18:25:06 -0700 Organization: The Eyrie Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <20020627184848.A14291@krusty.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> <87k7oe768o.fsf@home.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1025659645 19070 127.0.0.1 (3 Jul 2002 01:27:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 01:27:25 +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 17PYvV-0004xT-00 for ; Wed, 03 Jul 2002 03:27:25 +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 17PYte-0001ph-00; Tue, 02 Jul 2002 20:25:30 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 02 Jul 2002 20:25:50 -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 UAA07964 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 20:25:39 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 10967 invoked by alias); 3 Jul 2002 01:25:13 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 10962 invoked from network); 3 Jul 2002 01:25:13 -0000 Original-Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (171.64.13.23) by gnus.org with SMTP; 3 Jul 2002 01:25:13 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 20444 invoked by uid 50); 3 Jul 2002 01:25:06 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <87k7oe768o.fsf@home.lan> (Steinar Bang's message of "Tue, 02 Jul 2002 12:51:19 +0200") Original-Lines: 17 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:45506 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45506 Steinar Bang writes: >>>>>> Russ Allbery : >> 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. > It may be a good idea for interoperability, to insert the odd CR/LF > at, say, 510 char intervals? Right. yEnc, IIRC, does that. -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)