Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 04:37:39 +0100 From: Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> To: Larry Sica <lomion@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: spurious characters in cvs-all subject Message-ID: <3E87B803.9040101@cream.org> In-Reply-To: <210A206F-6329-11D7-A14A-000393A335A2@mac.com> References: <210A206F-6329-11D7-A14A-000393A335A2@mac.com>
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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.
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