From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 9 16:40:49 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAC2016A4CE for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 16:40:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from av6-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (av6-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.107]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E29F843D1F for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 16:40:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se) Received: by av6-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id B396E37E4D; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 18:40:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp2-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (smtp2-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.178]) by av6-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A33F337E42 for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 18:40:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h201n1fls24o1048.bredband.comhem.se [212.181.162.201]) by smtp2-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 757D437E44 for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 18:40:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 60299 invoked by uid 1001); 9 Jul 2004 16:40:46 -0000 Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 18:40:46 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: sub01@freeode.co.uk Message-ID: <20040709164046.GA60260@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: sub01@freeode.co.uk, questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20040709162025.GG58856@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Corrupt list archives? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 16:40:50 -0000 On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 05:28:39PM +0100, John Murphy wrote: > Dan Nelson 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: > shows the mess made of my original post. The archive shows your post exactly as it was sent. 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. 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. > > I don't think my messages were affected before I started using sendmail locally. Your mails might have been encoded differently before. Some mail gateaways convert mails from one encoding to another before passing them along - either adding or stripping quoted-printable encoding. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se