Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 13:03:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: sub01@freeode.co.uk Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Corrupt list archives? Message-ID: <200407091704.i69H49P01625@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <4site0lii9blqbvd8nlu802shsbrs0q6ui@4ax.com> from "John Murphy" at Jul 09, 2004 05:58:29 PM
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> > Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> wrote: > > >On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 05:28:39PM +0100, John Murphy wrote: > >> Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> wrote: > >> > >> >In the last episode (Jul 09), John Murphy said: > >> >> While browsing the freebsd-questions archives at freebsd.org and via > >> >> google, I noticed that corruption occurs, under some circumstances, > >> >> where "=" becomes "=3D" (3D is ascii for =) and some spaces are shown > >> >> as "=20". > >> > > >> >Sounds like quoted-printable MIME encoding. > >> > > >> >> The first instances of the problem (found via google groups) occurred > >> >> ~1994! The first archived in this list ~Feb. 2000. > >> >> > >> >> The same corruption can be seen in the mailing.freebsd.questions > >> >> newsgroup so it's not an http/html problem. > >> > > >> >Do you have a message-id of a message showing this? > >> > >> This URL: <http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?dtfte05p8b3djcvtbp9o24fqpopbiakosj> > >> shows the mess made of my original post. > > > >The archive shows your post exactly as it was sent. > > I'm amazed. "=" shows as "=3D" and "=3D" as "=3D3D" for me! > Hyphen hyphen space (sig separator) as "--=20". > > >Your mails are > >encoded with quoted-printable, which does encode some characters as you > >indicate. The archive is not corrupted since it displays the mails > >exactly as they were received. > > The browsers I've tried are set to Western (ISO-8859-1). > > >It would be desirable to have the mails in the archive converted from > >quoted-printable into standard 8-bit clean format, but no corruption > >happens. > > The apparent corruption must be visible to many users; can't be just me. I see this stuff all the time. I have gotten so I just ignore it except when replying or quoting and then I just manually remove the junk. It is a nuisance, but I don't know any good way of getting rid of it. ////jerry > > -- > John.
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