From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V14 #91 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Friday, April 3 2009 Volume 14 : Number 091 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: OT: corrupted header in Gmail? [Steve VanDevender Subject: Re: OT: corrupted header in Gmail? robert bristow-johnson writes: > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Steve VanDevender" > > To: "Michael Pearce" > > Cc: ecto@smoe.org > > Subject: OT: corrupted header in Gmail? > > Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 12:04:11 -0700 > > > > Michael Pearce writes: > > > This is the first time I have seen a corrupted Subject header from a > > > Gmail account. Any idea what happened? > > > > > > Subject: =?windows-1252?Q?Re=3A_Mariss_a_Nadler=97Little_Hell_s?= > > > > It's not corrupted, it's MIME quoted-printable encoding. > > but does that belong in a Subject header?? > > ick! Technically anything that's not in a specified subset of 7-bit ASCII doesn't belong in any RFC 822 mail header, which is why that Subject: header was encoded; it included an 8-bit character (encoded as "=97" in the text above). MIME quoted-printable provides a reversible encoding method for impermissible characters using only the characters that are permissible in headers; in theory clients should be doing the encoding and decoding so you don't see the raw quoted-printable encoding, and some MTAs will also encode headers if they find impermissible characters. Sorry, in real life I'm a sysadmin who specializes in email so I know waaay too much about this stuff. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 16:54:36 -0400 (EDT) From: listsg@sapphyre.org Subject: attention Pittsburgh 'philes For those that haven't noticed, it's going to be a good month at Club Cafe here in Pittsburgh: - - 13/April, 7:00pm, Vienna Teng. - - 21/April, 7:00pm, Rachael Sage. Good news: fantastic music, good acoustics. Bad news: The venue is cramped, ordering food an adventure, and the crowds are occasionally not particularly receptive (read: noisy, obnoxious). Are there any Pittsburgh ectophiles still around? Last I knew there were a few others, buried in lurkerdom as I generally am most of the time. Speak up if you're going to be there. And if you're not, why aren't you? :) ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V14 #91 **************************