Re: viewing uuencoded content

[Carlos Morgado <chbm chbm nu>]

On 2002.06.04 09:10:00 +0100 Ian Leonard wrote:
> 
> On 2002.06.03 23:19 Carlos Morgado wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 08:53:08PM +0200, M. Thielker wrote:
>> > first 50 lines of each message. Present that part as if it were a MIME
>> part.
> 
> [ snip ]
> 
> I understand the reasons for not wanting the completely automatic
> approach to this. However, for simplicity I told a small lie in my
> original posting. It's not me who is having the trouble - it's my
> wife and daughter - so it's a question of what they can do.

eh, a problem i can relate to :)

> 
> I wonder how much of a problem it is or what other weird formats
> there are? Maybe look for '\nbegin [a number] ' then look for '\nend\n'.
> There are other clues as well - most of the lines are the same length.
> 
it's fairly simple and you can even make it smart enough to avoid false
positives but the computational load would be heavy compared to the
amount of positives

> I would guess that you don't want to add an extra filtering mechanism
> if it will hardly ever be used.
> 

it's more like, how generic would this be ? it's actually not very hard to
do it (at least i don't think so - famous last words :)) but if we do it
we should do it right.

i still think the proper way is getting the other end to use mime,
uucoding is Good but has it's limited uses.

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