OT Star news story

[Russell Reiter]

I noticed some oddball characters after I sent the message from my
phone. I checked the sent folder and at the time it was sent, the
characters were appended to the link. However when I checked the sent
folder again, both on the android device and from this terminal via
gmail, the link displays correctly. I suspect some internal processing
error on the phone's part. The app I was running on the phone is just
called newspapers and it is what called gmail to send the link.

Here's what's showing up on the tlug archive @
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.tolug/

It's what I saw on my phone, which is not what shows in your email
below, unless something is translating the characters.

http://mobile.thestar.com/mobile/NEWS/article/1083629N���'����T����.�Ǟ�)�m��൩n����2�����-����h�',6��0�+j�^��ޖ�<��%�i�
�-�CRP�D�D��i��-j[���?�)"�Ƣ�)�+-




On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 07:05:53AM -0500, Russ wrote:
>> Interesting coverage of Byron Somme's trial.
>>
>> http://mobile.thestar.com/mobile/NEWS/article/1083629N ???'?????T??? ?.?Ǟ?)?? m??൩n????2? ????-???? h?',6??0?+j?^??ޖ?<??%?i? ?-?CRP ?D?D??i??-j[?????)"?Ƣ?)??+-
>
> Apparently the link is supposed to end at ...629, and the remaining line
> noise has no reason to be in the message.  I don't know what that is.
>
> Not sure why that needed base64 encoding in the first place either by
> the sending mail client.
>
> I wonder if mutt has a bug in the base64 decoder for plain text messages
> that get the length wrong somehow and had uninitialized memory shown.
>
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