Safe IO

[James Knott]

Russell Reiter wrote:
> I'm replying to this to test if the sig file ameliorates the mime
> problem's I'm encountering with my android device. Thanks for the help
> Len.
>
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Lennart Sorensen
> <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org>  wrote:
>    
>> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 08:24:22AM -0500, James Knott wrote:
>>      
>>> I've sent you a private email to you about this, but I'll say it
>>> again here.  Your messages include junk at the bottom, as shown
>>> below.  Some of your messages are nothing but junk.  I don't see
>>> this from anyone else.
>>>        
>> Yes, the mailing list appends an ascii TLUG signature to the message.
>> Since these message happen to be base64 encoded (why I have no idea,
>> but they are), the ascii being appended results in garbage when you try
>> to decode it as base64 data.
>>
>> So assuming base64 is a valid email encoding (seems to be), then the
>> mailing list is at fault for appending ascii to a non ascii message.
>> The mailing list software should obey the encoding when appending
>> the footer.
>>
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>> Len Sorensen
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>    

That appears better now.

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