Thread dorked. Was: Re: System Dorked -- Help!

["Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>]

Hi,

as a bystander i must say that the involved mail clients
invest much effort in making this thread a mess.

In the archives, the initial message is quite readable
but with seriously oversized lines:
  https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/10/msg01079.html

The two follow-ups by the original poster don't make it
better, but also not much worse.

Then comes
  https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/10/msg01091.html
where Renaud's client obviously copied the previous text
in a way which, after running through the archive's web server,
makes my Iceweasel go mad.
Text snippets like
  "pam ot gniyrT :lataF"
reveil their origin only if i read them backwards
  "Fatal: Trying to map"

My local mail client alpine shows the older texts as large
paragraphs with no line breaks and interjected ">" or "<".
Also there are placeholder characters for undisplayable UTF-8
characters.

My mailbox file contains stuff like
  "=E2=80=AD=E2=80=AEMore:I installed to the"
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8, "E2" indicates
a three-byte character.
  http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~richard/utf-8.cgi?input=E2+80+AD&mode=bytes
says its LEFT-TO-RIGHT OVERRIDE.
The other
  http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~richard/utf-8.cgi?input=E2+80+AE&mode=bytes
is RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE.

This brings me to
  http://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/09/right-to-left-override-aids-email-attacks/

Well, i cannot spot an .exe file in disguise, at least. :))


Have a nice day :)

Thomas