Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 07:31:24 -0500 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: spurious characters in cvs-all subject Message-ID: <3E87EECC.19720.2A1F9F0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3E87B803.9040101@cream.org> References: <210A206F-6329-11D7-A14A-000393A335A2@mac.com>
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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/
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