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Re: [RFA] Fix "show convenience" test


On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Pedro Alves wrote:

> On Thursday 17 September 2009 18:57:31, Paul Pluzhnikov wrote:
> > <quote>
> > 
> > ? *sigh*
> > 
> > ? How old is base64 now, has it hit 15 years yet? ?"text based mail reader"
> > ? my left foot, there's nothing to prevent a text based mail reader from
> > ? decoding mail in a 15 year old standard.
> > 
> > ? I can accept the argument that a pure text, 7bit ascii message of a
> > ? text subtype shouldn't be encoded automatically. ?I'm even suprised
> > ? that its base64 encoded and not qp-encoded if there happened to be
> > ? line-ending/wrapping concerns.
> > 
> 
> I hope that means that they'll address it.  :-)  This also prevents
> mail archives from showing the patch inline.  Compare:

It's a bug in the mail archiving software if it decides that based on 
Content-Transfer-Encoding rather than Content-Disposition.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com

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