Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2019 11:20:30 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Trond =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Endrest=F8l?= <trond.endrestol@ximalas.info> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: grep for ascii nul Message-ID: <20191101112030.4e4f09f3.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.99999.352.1911011057490.19545@enterprise.ximalas.info> References: <20191101024817.GA60134@admin.sibptus.ru> <558fd145-ad3e-90dc-5930-c01ca0c27d3c@panix.com> <61f96c80-7965-9c80-30dc-b153e418b668@panix.com> <20191101104917.e49c518e.freebsd@edvax.de> <alpine.BSF.2.21.99999.352.1911011057490.19545@enterprise.ximalas.info>
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On Fri, 1 Nov 2019 11:01:56 +0100 (CET), Trond Endrest=F8l wrote: > On Fri, 1 Nov 2019 10:49+0100, Polytropon wrote: >=20 > > At least the list does _strip_ attachments which aren't > > of type "text/ascii"; maybe with a re-declaration of > > the attachment type it would have come through. However, > > inlining a small C program is (just like with log files, > > program outputs or "ASCII screenshots") fully accaptable > > and welcome. :-) >=20 > I use Alpine for email, and my ~/.mimes.types contains >=20 > text/plain adb ads c cc conf cpp cs d dat diff erl fd >i fragment go h hh hpp hrl local log patch rb rc rs sh sql txt Yes, "text/plain" is correct of course. :-) > to ensure the attachments are marked as plain text when they are in=20 > fact such beasts. I don't know if the declaration "text/x-csrc" is processed by the mailing list as regular text attachment, but as you said, "text/plain" should work. Stripping non-text attachments (especially binary ones, like images) has been common practice on this list for years, probably for decades now. Inlining source code could have another aspect, and depending on the language (!) of the inlined program, it _might_ or _might not_ affect what the program does: I'm talking about automated linebreaks inserted by the MUA (max. column width). --=20 Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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