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Re: Bug#3253: Pine over-encodes files (came from Bug#932)



> > I know your position on the subject backwards and forwards.
> > It doesn't matter!
> > The Pine Developers have made themselves equally clear on this subject.
> > They are not going to change this "feature".
> 
> well, before you close this bug, can you please tell me what
> stopps us from changeing this behaviour in our diff file?

I think having different behavior on our system compared to other
distributions is a "bad idea" (tm).

> i thought we all agree that this behaviour, although the
> upstream developers call it a feature, should be considered
> a bug?!

No, not everyone.  I agree with how Pine does things.  If you
want to attach something then it goes through mail encoded such
that absolutely _nothing_ can be changed.  Plain-text can be
altered.  If you want to send plain text, then simply include
the file instead.  Makes perfect sense to me.

                                        Brian
                               ( bcwhite@verisim.com )

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