[lojban-beginners] Re: more 'suck'

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 02:51:23AM -0500, der Mouse wrote:
> >> Speaking of which, could someone possibly convince the list to
> >> stop emitting mail with headers containing non-ASCII
> >> characters?
> > No, because the list doesn't generate the messages, it just
> > passes them on with as little munging as possible.
> 
> Then I'd say it shouldn't be accepting them, if that's what it
> takes to stop it from emitting them.

Boy, that' just seems like The Wrong Solution to me.

> > Furthermore, how would you convert them?
> 
> Convert them?  I wouldn't.  I'd bounce them.
> 
> Indeed, I *do* bounce them.
> 
> Check the list logs and you'll probably see rejections, my mailer
> saying "554 Invalid character in header", for messages containing
> 
> 	From: Jorge "Llamb?as" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>

Indeed, I had forgotten about that.

And you are THE ONLY ONE.  It's very obnoxious; please stop.

-Robin

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