Re: Whining about MIME formatted email

2000-09-12 Thread Jamie Lokier

Jes Sorensen wrote:
> So? I have one of those letters in my name as well, doesn't mean I put
> it in the From line or in the code that I write. Or do you want us all
> to start using a compiler and editors that will understand full UTF8
> so everybody who use non roman character sets have their names
> displayed correctly in the comments of the code?
> 
> The kernel is written in C, C is in ASCII so whats the problem?

Look at the kernel.  There are already a few comments using 8 bit
chars.  One presumes iso-latin-1.

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Re: [OT] Re: Whining about MIME formatted email

2000-09-12 Thread Jes Sorensen

> "David" == David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

David> C program instructions are in ASCII, data certainly isn't
David> restricted to that.  If you or your M*A can't or won't deal
David> with anything but plain text, then filter it.  Plain text is
David> clearly in the minority of emails throughout the world and the
David> people on LKML seem in general not to care about MIME and
David> frequently use it.  Let's end this offtopic thread please.

Says the guy who puts his response in front of the quoted text which
violates rfc1855 and adds a vcard  you really expect people to
take you serious?

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Re: [OT] Re: Whining about MIME formatted email

2000-09-12 Thread Alexander Viro



On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, David Ford wrote:

> C program instructions are in ASCII, data certainly isn't restricted to that.
> If you or your M*A can't or won't deal with anything but plain text, then
> filter it.  Plain text is clearly in the minority of emails throughout the
> world and the people on LKML seem in general not to care about MIME and
> frequently use it.  Let's end this offtopic thread please.

Good. Now, could you please get something resembling a MUA or at
least RTFM to figure out how to make Mozilla cut this "card for foobar"
crap? "X-Terminally-Clueless: yes" in headers would convey precisely the
same message and would have a benefit of being shorter.

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[OT] Re: Whining about MIME formatted email

2000-09-12 Thread David Ford

C program instructions are in ASCII, data certainly isn't restricted to that.
If you or your M*A can't or won't deal with anything but plain text, then
filter it.  Plain text is clearly in the minority of emails throughout the
world and the people on LKML seem in general not to care about MIME and
frequently use it.  Let's end this offtopic thread please.

-d

Jes Sorensen wrote:

> The kernel is written in C, C is in ASCII so whats the problem?

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'committed'."




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Re: Whining about MIME formatted email

2000-09-12 Thread Jes Sorensen

> "Horst" == Horst von Brand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Horst> "Albert D. Cahalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [...]

>> That would be the "H=F8jland" in your .sig, right?  No problem, '='
>> is a standard character.
>> 
>> My MUA has been RFC-compliant since before this "MIME" thing
>> existed, so I can see the full ASCII character set. That includes
>> the carat, underscore, back tick, backslash, vertical bar, at
>> symbol, octothorpe, and both braces.

Horst> That is a really upsetting US/ASCII/English-centric view. How
Horst> would you feel if the prevalent, "standard" character set
Horst> didn't include 'h' and _your_ name showed up as "Albert
Horst> D. Ca=68alan" elsewhere?!

So? I have one of those letters in my name as well, doesn't mean I put
it in the From line or in the code that I write. Or do you want us all
to start using a compiler and editors that will understand full UTF8
so everybody who use non roman character sets have their names
displayed correctly in the comments of the code?

The kernel is written in C, C is in ASCII so whats the problem?

Jes
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Re: Whining about MIME formatted email

2000-09-12 Thread Jes Sorensen

> "Kurt" == Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Kurt> On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 06:33:34PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
>> Exmh handles MIME just fine and MIME is useful for some things.
>> Other people (including Linus) have made it clear that MIME is not
>> welcome on linux-kernel, plain text format is always better when
>> you are sending plain text.  What next, rich text format and HTML
>> with multiple copies of the text, MSWord format?

Kurt> Stop making stupid statements like this, please, and comparing
Kurt> well-defined RFC standards with proprietary formats.  MIME is a
Kurt> way for people that happen to use non 7bit characters to be able
Kurt> to print their name correctly, even in presence of MTAs
Kurt> somewhere in between that don't handle 8bit. Or with PGP, which
Kurt> also prefers 7bit ...  You'll probably complain about me using a
Kurt> GnuPG signature as well.

You do not need 8 bit characters in kernel code it's as simple as
that. If you really insist, then post the patch in pure 8 bit,
quoted-unreadable is brain damage and deserves to die the sooner the
better. If there is a broken mail server somewhere in the way (which
is really really rare these days) let the people who are behind that
server suffer and not everybody else.

Besides, quoted-unreadable makes it hard to just do 

patch < $MAILDIR/linux-kernel/

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Re: Whining about MIME formatted email

2000-09-12 Thread Jes Sorensen

 "Horst" == Horst von Brand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Horst "Albert D. Cahalan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [...]

 That would be the "H=F8jland" in your .sig, right?  No problem, '='
 is a standard character.
 
 My MUA has been RFC-compliant since before this "MIME" thing
 existed, so I can see the full ASCII character set. That includes
 the carat, underscore, back tick, backslash, vertical bar, at
 symbol, octothorpe, and both braces.

Horst That is a really upsetting US/ASCII/English-centric view. How
Horst would you feel if the prevalent, "standard" character set
Horst didn't include 'h' and _your_ name showed up as "Albert
Horst D. Ca=68alan" elsewhere?!

So? I have one of those letters in my name as well, doesn't mean I put
it in the From line or in the code that I write. Or do you want us all
to start using a compiler and editors that will understand full UTF8
so everybody who use non roman character sets have their names
displayed correctly in the comments of the code?

The kernel is written in C, C is in ASCII so whats the problem?

Jes
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[OT] Re: Whining about MIME formatted email

2000-09-12 Thread David Ford

C program instructions are in ASCII, data certainly isn't restricted to that.
If you or your M*A can't or won't deal with anything but plain text, then
filter it.  Plain text is clearly in the minority of emails throughout the
world and the people on LKML seem in general not to care about MIME and
frequently use it.  Let's end this offtopic thread please.

-d

Jes Sorensen wrote:

 The kernel is written in C, C is in ASCII so whats the problem?

--
"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an
eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was
'committed'."




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x-mozilla-html:TRUE
org:img src="http://www.kalifornia.com/images/paradise.jpg"
adr:;;
version:2.1
email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
title:Blue Labs Developer
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Re: [OT] Re: Whining about MIME formatted email

2000-09-12 Thread Alexander Viro



On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, David Ford wrote:

 C program instructions are in ASCII, data certainly isn't restricted to that.
 If you or your M*A can't or won't deal with anything but plain text, then
 filter it.  Plain text is clearly in the minority of emails throughout the
 world and the people on LKML seem in general not to care about MIME and
 frequently use it.  Let's end this offtopic thread please.

Good. Now, could you please get something resembling a MUA or at
least RTFM to figure out how to make Mozilla cut this "card for foobar"
crap? "X-Terminally-Clueless: yes" in headers would convey precisely the
same message and would have a benefit of being shorter.

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Re: [OT] Re: Whining about MIME formatted email

2000-09-12 Thread Jes Sorensen

 "David" == David Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

David C program instructions are in ASCII, data certainly isn't
David restricted to that.  If you or your M*A can't or won't deal
David with anything but plain text, then filter it.  Plain text is
David clearly in the minority of emails throughout the world and the
David people on LKML seem in general not to care about MIME and
David frequently use it.  Let's end this offtopic thread please.

Says the guy who puts his response in front of the quoted text which
violates rfc1855 and adds a vcard  you really expect people to
take you serious?

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Re: Whining about MIME formatted email

2000-09-12 Thread Jamie Lokier

Jes Sorensen wrote:
 So? I have one of those letters in my name as well, doesn't mean I put
 it in the From line or in the code that I write. Or do you want us all
 to start using a compiler and editors that will understand full UTF8
 so everybody who use non roman character sets have their names
 displayed correctly in the comments of the code?
 
 The kernel is written in C, C is in ASCII so whats the problem?

Look at the kernel.  There are already a few comments using 8 bit
chars.  One presumes iso-latin-1.

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Re: Whining about MIME formatted email

2000-09-10 Thread Richard Gooch

Alexander Viro writes:
> MIME may help to work around the b0rken MTAs that are not 8-bit
> clean, but that's about it. It is nothing but a glamorized tarball.

MIME and glamour are like oil and water.

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Re: Whining about MIME formatted email

2000-09-10 Thread Richard Gooch

Alexander Viro writes:
 MIME may help to work around the b0rken MTAs that are not 8-bit
 clean, but that's about it. It is nothing but a glamorized tarball.

MIME and glamour are like oil and water.

Regards,

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Re: Whining about MIME formatted email

2000-09-09 Thread Alexander Viro



On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Horst von Brand wrote:

> "Albert D. Cahalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > That would be the "H=F8jland" in your .sig, right?
> > No problem, '=' is a standard character.
> > 
> > My MUA has been RFC-compliant since before this "MIME" thing existed,
> > so I can see the full ASCII character set. That includes the carat,
> > underscore, back tick, backslash, vertical bar, at symbol, octothorpe,
> > and both braces.
> 
> That is a really upsetting US/ASCII/English-centric view. How would you
> feel if the prevalent, "standard" character set didn't include 'h' and
> _your_ name showed up as "Albert D. Ca=68alan" elsewhere?!

Oh, come on. You are lucky enough to have the alphabet derived from Latin.

> That your MUA is RFC-compliant is nice, but in this case the RFC was
> shortsighted. My MUA and MTA are at least able to handle Latin-1 (and
> probably other charsets too, never tried).

Yes? How about we all settle down on UTF-8? MIME may be a good thing or
not, but it's _not_ a solution for internationalization problems. No more
than uuencoded tarball would be. Care to tell me how to put Latin-1 and
Cyrillic into the same text? No? Thought so. How about adding Greek into
the mix? Separate piece for every place where you change the alphabet?
Use of MIME for that is a bad kludge. It happens to work for English+one
more language cominations. Try it for French+Russian and you are in for
trouble. MIME may help to work around the b0rken MTAs that are not 8-bit
clean, but that's about it. It is nothing but a glamorized tarball.

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Re: Whining about MIME formatted email

2000-09-09 Thread Horst von Brand

"Albert D. Cahalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

[...]

> That would be the "H=F8jland" in your .sig, right?
> No problem, '=' is a standard character.
> 
> My MUA has been RFC-compliant since before this "MIME" thing existed,
> so I can see the full ASCII character set. That includes the carat,
> underscore, back tick, backslash, vertical bar, at symbol, octothorpe,
> and both braces.

That is a really upsetting US/ASCII/English-centric view. How would you
feel if the prevalent, "standard" character set didn't include 'h' and
_your_ name showed up as "Albert D. Ca=68alan" elsewhere?!

That your MUA is RFC-compliant is nice, but in this case the RFC was
shortsighted. My MUA and MTA are at least able to handle Latin-1 (and
probably other charsets too, never tried).
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Re: Whining about MIME formatted email

2000-09-09 Thread Jamie Lokier

Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> > You can say it louder but you can't say it clearer.  I'd love to know that
> > my surname shows up correctly everywhere.   BTW, mutt shows MIME
> > patches in plain text without any problems 
> 
> That would be the "H=F8jland" in your .sig, right?
> No problem, '=' is a standard character.

Time to upgrade your MUA.  Ragnar's name looks fine to me :-)
Though somehow I don't think Chinese would come out right on my xterm.

> My MUA has been RFC-compliant since before this "MIME" thing existed,
> so I can see the full ASCII character set.

Yeah, and I bet Linux 0.99's TCP was RFC793 compliant too but that
doesn't cut it these days either.

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Re: Whining about MIME formatted email

2000-09-09 Thread Jamie Lokier

Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
  You can say it louder but you can't say it clearer.  I'd love to know that
  my surname shows up correctly everywhere.  asbestos BTW, mutt shows MIME
  patches in plain text without any problems /
 
 That would be the "H=F8jland" in your .sig, right?
 No problem, '=' is a standard character.

Time to upgrade your MUA.  Ragnar's name looks fine to me :-)
Though somehow I don't think Chinese would come out right on my xterm.

 My MUA has been RFC-compliant since before this "MIME" thing existed,
 so I can see the full ASCII character set.

Yeah, and I bet Linux 0.99's TCP was RFC793 compliant too but that
doesn't cut it these days either.

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Re: Whining about MIME formatted email

2000-09-09 Thread Horst von Brand

"Albert D. Cahalan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:

[...]

 That would be the "H=F8jland" in your .sig, right?
 No problem, '=' is a standard character.
 
 My MUA has been RFC-compliant since before this "MIME" thing existed,
 so I can see the full ASCII character set. That includes the carat,
 underscore, back tick, backslash, vertical bar, at symbol, octothorpe,
 and both braces.

That is a really upsetting US/ASCII/English-centric view. How would you
feel if the prevalent, "standard" character set didn't include 'h' and
_your_ name showed up as "Albert D. Ca=68alan" elsewhere?!

That your MUA is RFC-compliant is nice, but in this case the RFC was
shortsighted. My MUA and MTA are at least able to handle Latin-1 (and
probably other charsets too, never tried).
-- 
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Re: Whining about MIME formatted email

2000-09-09 Thread Alexander Viro



On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Horst von Brand wrote:

 "Albert D. Cahalan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
 
 [...]
 
  That would be the "H=F8jland" in your .sig, right?
  No problem, '=' is a standard character.
  
  My MUA has been RFC-compliant since before this "MIME" thing existed,
  so I can see the full ASCII character set. That includes the carat,
  underscore, back tick, backslash, vertical bar, at symbol, octothorpe,
  and both braces.
 
 That is a really upsetting US/ASCII/English-centric view. How would you
 feel if the prevalent, "standard" character set didn't include 'h' and
 _your_ name showed up as "Albert D. Ca=68alan" elsewhere?!

Oh, come on. You are lucky enough to have the alphabet derived from Latin.

 That your MUA is RFC-compliant is nice, but in this case the RFC was
 shortsighted. My MUA and MTA are at least able to handle Latin-1 (and
 probably other charsets too, never tried).

Yes? How about we all settle down on UTF-8? MIME may be a good thing or
not, but it's _not_ a solution for internationalization problems. No more
than uuencoded tarball would be. Care to tell me how to put Latin-1 and
Cyrillic into the same text? No? Thought so. How about adding Greek into
the mix? Separate piece for every place where you change the alphabet?
Use of MIME for that is a bad kludge. It happens to work for English+one
more language cominations. Try it for French+Russian and you are in for
trouble. MIME may help to work around the b0rken MTAs that are not 8-bit
clean, but that's about it. It is nothing but a glamorized tarball.

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Re: Whining about MIME formatted email

2000-09-08 Thread Albert D. Cahalan

Ragnar Hojland Esp writes:
> On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 11:10:13PM +0200, Kurt Garloff wrote:
> > Stop making stupid statements like this, please, and comparing well-d=
> efined
> > RFC standards with proprietary formats.=20
> > MIME is a way for people that happen to use non 7bit characters to be=
>  able
> > to print their name correctly, even in presence of MTAs somewhere in =
> between
> 
> You can say it louder but you can't say it clearer.  I'd love to know t=
> hat
> my surname shows up correctly everywhere.   BTW, mutt shows M=
> IME
> patches in plain text without any problems 


That would be the "H=F8jland" in your .sig, right?
No problem, '=' is a standard character.

My MUA has been RFC-compliant since before this "MIME" thing existed,
so I can see the full ASCII character set. That includes the carat,
underscore, back tick, backslash, vertical bar, at symbol, octothorpe,
and both braces.


> --=20
> /|  Ragnar H=F8jland Freedom - Linux - OpenGL  Fingerprint =
>  94C4B
> \ o.O|   2F0D27DE025BE2=
> 302C
>  =3D(_)=3D  "Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer for  104B78C56 =
> B72F0822
>U chaos and madness await thee at its end."   hkp://keys.pgp=
> =2Ecom
> 
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Re: Whining about MIME formatted email

2000-09-08 Thread Ragnar Hojland Espinosa

On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 11:10:13PM +0200, Kurt Garloff wrote:
> Stop making stupid statements like this, please, and comparing well-defined
> RFC standards with proprietary formats. 
> MIME is a way for people that happen to use non 7bit characters to be able
> to print their name correctly, even in presence of MTAs somewhere in between

You can say it louder but you can't say it clearer.  I'd love to know that
my surname shows up correctly everywhere.   BTW, mutt shows MIME
patches in plain text without any problems 
-- 
/|  Ragnar Højland Freedom - Linux - OpenGL  Fingerprint  94C4B
\ o.O|   2F0D27DE025BE2302C
 =(_)=  "Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer for  104B78C56 B72F0822
   U chaos and madness await thee at its end."   hkp://keys.pgp.com

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Re: Whining about MIME formatted email

2000-09-08 Thread Kurt Garloff

On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 06:33:34PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
> Exmh handles MIME just fine and MIME is useful for some things.  Other
> people (including Linus) have made it clear that MIME is not welcome on
> linux-kernel, plain text format is always better when you are sending
> plain text.  What next, rich text format and HTML with multiple copies
> of the text, MSWord format?

Stop making stupid statements like this, please, and comparing well-defined
RFC standards with proprietary formats. 
MIME is a way for people that happen to use non 7bit characters to be able
to print their name correctly, even in presence of MTAs somewhere in between
that don't handle 8bit. Or with PGP, which also prefers 7bit ...
You'll probably complain about me using a GnuPG signature as well.

Regards,
-- 
Kurt Garloff  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  Eindhoven, NL
GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development
SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG   SCSI, Security

 PGP signature


Re: Whining about MIME formatted email

2000-09-08 Thread john slee

On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 06:33:34PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
> plain text.  What next, rich text format and HTML with multiple copies
> of the text, MSWord format?

don't joke.  a certain government department here (that shall remain
unnamed) has an email system that *automatically* converts everything to
rtf.  it's, well, yuk? :-(

j.

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Re: Whining about MIME formatted email

2000-09-08 Thread Kurt Garloff

On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 06:33:34PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
 Exmh handles MIME just fine and MIME is useful for some things.  Other
 people (including Linus) have made it clear that MIME is not welcome on
 linux-kernel, plain text format is always better when you are sending
 plain text.  What next, rich text format and HTML with multiple copies
 of the text, MSWord format?

Stop making stupid statements like this, please, and comparing well-defined
RFC standards with proprietary formats. 
MIME is a way for people that happen to use non 7bit characters to be able
to print their name correctly, even in presence of MTAs somewhere in between
that don't handle 8bit. Or with PGP, which also prefers 7bit ...
You'll probably complain about me using a GnuPG signature as well.

Regards,
-- 
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GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development
SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG   SCSI, Security

 PGP signature


Re: Whining about MIME formatted email

2000-09-08 Thread Ragnar Hojland Espinosa

On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 11:10:13PM +0200, Kurt Garloff wrote:
 Stop making stupid statements like this, please, and comparing well-defined
 RFC standards with proprietary formats. 
 MIME is a way for people that happen to use non 7bit characters to be able
 to print their name correctly, even in presence of MTAs somewhere in between

You can say it louder but you can't say it clearer.  I'd love to know that
my surname shows up correctly everywhere.  asbestos BTW, mutt shows MIME
patches in plain text without any problems /
-- 
/|  Ragnar Højland Freedom - Linux - OpenGL  Fingerprint  94C4B
\ o.O|   2F0D27DE025BE2302C
 =(_)=  "Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer for  104B78C56 B72F0822
   U chaos and madness await thee at its end."   hkp://keys.pgp.com

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Re: Whining about MIME formatted email

2000-09-08 Thread Albert D. Cahalan

Ragnar Hojland Esp writes:
 On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 11:10:13PM +0200, Kurt Garloff wrote:
  Stop making stupid statements like this, please, and comparing well-d=
 efined
  RFC standards with proprietary formats.=20
  MIME is a way for people that happen to use non 7bit characters to be=
  able
  to print their name correctly, even in presence of MTAs somewhere in =
 between
 
 You can say it louder but you can't say it clearer.  I'd love to know t=
 hat
 my surname shows up correctly everywhere.  asbestos BTW, mutt shows M=
 IME
 patches in plain text without any problems /


That would be the "H=F8jland" in your .sig, right?
No problem, '=' is a standard character.

My MUA has been RFC-compliant since before this "MIME" thing existed,
so I can see the full ASCII character set. That includes the carat,
underscore, back tick, backslash, vertical bar, at symbol, octothorpe,
and both braces.


 --=20
 /|  Ragnar H=F8jland Freedom - Linux - OpenGL  Fingerprint =
  94C4B
 \ o.O|   2F0D27DE025BE2=
 302C
  =3D(_)=3D  "Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer for  104B78C56 =
 B72F0822
U chaos and madness await thee at its end."   hkp://keys.pgp=
 =2Ecom
 
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