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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.
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Joseph S. Myers
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