On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Pedro Alves wrote:

> On Thursday 17 September 2009 18:57:31, Paul Pluzhnikov wrote:
> > <quote>
> > 
> >   *sigh*
> > 
> >   How old is base64 now, has it hit 15 years yet?  "text based mail reader"
> >   my left foot, there's nothing to prevent a text based mail reader from
> >   decoding mail in a 15 year old standard.
> > 
> >   I can accept the argument that a pure text, 7bit ascii message of a
> >   text subtype shouldn't be encoded automatically.  I'm even suprised
> >   that its base64 encoded and not qp-encoded if there happened to be
> >   line-ending/wrapping concerns.
> > 
> 
> I hope that means that they'll address it.  :-)  This also prevents
> mail archives from showing the patch inline.  Compare:

It's a bug in the mail archiving software if it decides that based on 
Content-Transfer-Encoding rather than Content-Disposition.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com