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From: John Murphy <spam-trap@freeode.co.uk>
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Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 17:58:29 +0100
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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.