Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 17:58:29 +0100 From: John Murphy <spam-trap@freeode.co.uk> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Corrupt list archives? Message-ID: <4site0lii9blqbvd8nlu802shsbrs0q6ui@4ax.com> In-Reply-To: <20040709164046.GA60260@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> References: <dtfte05p8b3djcvtbp9o24fqpopbiakosj@4ax.com> <20040709162025.GG58856@dan.emsphone.com> <lmhte0168oth98cec085p30kj0jstdtv3t@4ax.com> <20040709164046.GA60260@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
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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: >>=20 >> >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 "=3D" becomes "=3D3D" (3D is ascii for =3D) and some spaces = are shown >> >> as "=3D20". >> > >> >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. >> >>=20 >> >> 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? >>=20 >> 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. "=3D" shows as "=3D3D" and "=3D3D" as "=3D3D3D" for me! Hyphen hyphen space (sig separator) as "--=3D20". >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. --=20 John.
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