On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 03:11:15PM +0200, Brian White wrote:
> > > As you say, purpose matters. There is no purpose to data just
> > > because it's gzipped.
> >
> > False. The purpose is to take up less space.
> >
>
> That's why you compressed it.
Yes, exactly; that's its purpose.
> That's
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 03:16:08PM +0200, Brian White wrote:
> > Everything is an encoding. HTML is an encoding. MP3 is an encoding.
> > ASCII is an encoding. All digital data on a computer is an encoding
> > of some sort. Purpose *absolutely* matters.
> >
>
> All of those are more than an enc
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 08:24:22PM +0200, Brian White wrote:
> > But I don't see why adding these MIME types -- which many other OSes
> > do include in their system-wide mime.types file, including many other
> > Linux distros -- should break Apache.
>
> Because if .gz was present, it would send th
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:38:42AM +0200, Brian White wrote:
> > I will systematically prove that (depending on semantics) either this
> > is outright false, or that the term "encoding" has been
> > misappropriated and, in the context of MIME, excluding these on the
> > basis that they are "encodin
Package: mime-support
Version: 3.48-1
The mime.types file is missing MIME types for x-gzip and x-compress.
The debian mime.types file states:
# Note: Compression schemes like "gzip", "bzip", and "compress" are
# not actually "mime-types". They are "encodings" and hence must
# _not_ have entri
The following reply was made to PR mutt/580; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Derek Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mutt Developers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
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Subject: Re: mutt/580: mutt stores PGP passphrase insecurely
Date: Sun
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 02:42:51PM +0200, Thomas Roessler wrote:
> On 2005-10-07 04:35:02 +0200, Derek Martin wrote:
>
> > Er, well, come on... just because Mutt *can* use an auxiliary
> > program to handle encryption passphrases securely doesn't mean
> > mutt it
The following reply was made to PR mutt/580; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Derek Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Mutt Developers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Marco d'Itri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
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Subject: Re: mutt/580: mutt stor
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 05:55:17AM +0200, Brendan Cully wrote:
> Synopsis: mutt stores PGP passphrase insecurely
> State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> State-Changed-Why:
> Mutt can use gpg-agent, which pushes this problem outside of mutt's domain.
Er, well, come on... just because Mutt *can* us
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 07:05:00PM +0200, Rado Smiljanic wrote:
> Synopsis: encrypt mail with more keys than recipient list (think mailinglist)
I happen to agree that mutt should have a facility to select recipient
encryption keys independent of the message recipients; however as a
work-around yo
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