Re: Trying to end my subscription? HELP!

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:23:08 +0200
Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer@icfo.es> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 16:59:34 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:
> > On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:40:11 -0400 Jim Hyslop wrote:
> > 
> > Hello Jim,
> > 
> > > The info is there, your mail reader is just not displaying it. I
> > > looked at the plain-text version of your message, and it's there.
> > 
> > You're right.  I'd not noticed this before, and had to "View message
> > source" to see it at all.
> > 
> > Why though, on this list, does the info get hidden, but on others, I
> > can see it?
> > 
> > Signed;  Confused.
> 
> If I remember correctly it goes something like this:
> 
> - The problem is caused by messages with attachments. A detached GPG/PGP
>   signature is just the most common type of attachment on this list.
>   Messages with inline signatures (old style) should not suffer from
>   this.
> 
> - The debian mailing list server appends the how-to-unsubscribe
>   information to the end of each messages as if the whole message were a
>   "flat" mail. This means that for a message with attachments the
>   appended part is "undefined" because it comes after the terminating
>   separator string and does not have a type definition.
> 
> - The general confusion is increased by the fact that some MUAs do show
>   the undefined part while others interpret the relevant RFC more
>   strictly and suppress it.
> 
> - The other lists that you mention might simply attach their text in an
>   RFC-compliant manner.
> 
> -- 
> Regards,            | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer
>           Florian   |

Thanks, Florian. Do I understand you correctly that Debian's lists are
run in a non-RFC-compliant manner? I am shocked, shocked!

Celejar