Corrupt list archives?
John Murphy
spam-trap at freeode.co.uk
Fri Jul 9 09:28:41 PDT 2004
Dan Nelson <dnelson at allantgroup.com> wrote:
>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 "=" becomes "=3D" (3D is ascii for =) and some spaces are shown
>> as "=20".
>
>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.
>>
>> 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?
This URL: <http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?dtfte05p8b3djcvtbp9o24fqpopbiakosj>
shows the mess made of my original post.
I don't think my messages were affected before I started using sendmail locally.
--
John.
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