email fuckage

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From: Geoff Richards
Subject: email fuckage
Date: 14:45 on 10 Nov 2004
When a mail program quotes a message in a reply you might prefer it
to use lots of pointies down the side, or to plonk it verbatim at
the bottom.  Maybe there are other designs that make sense too, but
here's a method that has never occurred to me before: put the name
and email address of the original's sender inside a big pile of
misformatted ASCII-art boxes, followed by something similar to the
content of the original message, except with a few null characters
sprinkled in for good measure.  Genius.

The culprit looks to be one of these:

   X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.10
   X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router

This wouldn't actually cause me a big problem, but our salesman
couldn't open the message in Outlook, and our administrator couldn't
edit the text in Gedit (it can't figure out what character encoding
it's in, so it daren't let the user see it, in case it fries their
brain Snow Crash stylee).

Bloody email, hardly worth the trouble any more.

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--- Geoff Richards -------------><-------------- http://ungwe.org/ ---
"I tried to fling my shadow at the moon,
 The while my blood leapt with a wordless song."  --  Theodore Roethke

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