From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 30 19:37:42 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4D6B37B401 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 19:37:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from port995.com (port995.com [213.162.97.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFA2D43FBD for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 19:37:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrew@cream.org) Received: by port995.com (Port995 Mail, from userid 77) id 3A74214076BE; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 04:37:25 +0100 (BST) Received: from cream.org (pc-80-195-57-71-ll.blueyonder.co.uk [80.195.57.71]) by port995.com (Port995 Mail) with ESMTP id 5CAD514076B0; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 04:37:24 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <3E87B803.9040101@cream.org> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 04:37:39 +0100 From: Andrew Boothman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030321 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Larry Sica References: <210A206F-6329-11D7-A14A-000393A335A2@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <210A206F-6329-11D7-A14A-000393A335A2@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: spurious characters in cvs-all subject X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 03:37:44 -0000 Larry Sica wrote: >>> A square box after right after "cvs commit:". I saw it in this >>> message: >>> >>> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=130598+0+current/cvs-all >>> >> >> I noticed them too viewing my mail in Mozilla 1.3b in several commit >> messages on cvs-all. They seem to be the standard character that >> Mozilla uses when it doesn't know how to render a character as they >> turn up in large quantites in 90% of the spam I get..... > > Most likely they had a character in there that the mail app couldnt > render like mentioned above, i've seen it with non-standard charsets. > Odds are they are not using the same charset or a charset your mailer > had an issue with... I'm sure it's something like that, that doesn't explain how it managed to turn up in a few commit messages a few hours apart and then never be seen again. A cvs commit mail sure doesn't use unusual characters in it's subject line. Also, I just noticed the box appearing again in the subject of a recent mail to -announce about that new sendmail exploit. Did you see it there Dan? But strangely not in the identical post to -security-announcements which I also got. Strange.... Andrew.