Re: [Nmh-workers] illegal multipart/mixed encoding display problem

[Paul Fox]

ken wrote:
 > >They say they like open source so why not try their
 > >address@hidden address, explain the problem, and see if they
 > >can agree it's their code or point to a library they've pulled in.
 > 
 > Sancho! My armour! My sword!
 > 
 > In all seriousness, I assign the following probabilities to the outcome of
 > doing that:
 > 
 > - 60% chance of getting your email ignored completely
 > - 30% chance of getting a reply that basically says, "It works for
 >   everybody else, you suck".
 > - 5% chance of getting someone who understands your complaint but blames
 >   it on another piece of software and refuses to fix it.
 > - 5% chance of getting it fixed.
 > 
 > Paul, if you want to try running that to ground ... well, more power to
 > you.  Technically, you'd be in the right, but in my experience you're
 > likely to run into this sort of thing:
 > 
 >     http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/nmh-workers/2012-12/msg00169.html
 > 
 > But it's always possible you could get it fixed.

i'm with you and tet on this one.

but because it's the Right Thing, i'll send mail to amrep telling them
their ticket mail is malformed according to RFC2045, and unreadable by
some customers (me), and they should have someone from their technical
staff contact me if they'd like more info.

paul
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 paul fox, address@hidden (arlington, ma, where it's 41.7 degrees)