From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 31 04:31:12 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 920DE37B401 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 04:31:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from bast.unixathome.org (bast.unixathome.org [66.11.174.150]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7A2043F3F for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 04:31:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from wocker (wocker.unixathome.org [192.168.0.99]) by bast.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19DE13D29; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 07:31:11 -0500 (EST) From: "Dan Langille" To: Andrew Boothman Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 07:31:24 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <3E87EECC.19720.2A1F9F0@localhost> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <3E87B803.9040101@cream.org> References: <210A206F-6329-11D7-A14A-000393A335A2@mac.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.02a) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body 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 12:31:14 -0000 On 31 Mar 2003 at 4:37, Andrew Boothman wrote: > 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. Yes, I saw it there too. It might be a new-line charcter, a tab, etc. -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/