[OT] western cultural imperialism at vger?

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Dec 21, 2005, 23:24 UTC
Message-ID: <7v8xue11ag.fsf_-_@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20051222.080828.28117009.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>

YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> writes:

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> In article <7v3bkm3vw4.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (at Wed, 21 Dec 2005 14:52:59 -0800), Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> says:
>
>> This is the second reply to Yoshifuji-san today that did not
>> come back to me from the list (but I did get it back from my ISP
>> due to BCCing myself), so I am resending.
>
> I got all of them; with and without my Japanese name on To:.

Your "oops this is the corrected patch" message appeared in my mailbox only once, which suggests vger discarded it. It does not appear on marc nor gmane archive either.

It seems to me that vger drops messages whose content-type is "text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp"; this western cultural imperialism is inexcusable -- the list accepts iso-8859-1 just fine, so it is not like it is us-ascii only. It just does not like iso-2022-jp.

Nah, I am just joking about the "imperialism" part, but I think that is what is happening.

Most of your messages, although you have your Japanese name on the From: header line, are charset=us-ascii, and indeed the body of them are us-ascii only, and is flowing on the list just fine. The "oops this is the corrected patch" message from you was done as a reply to your own message, which started with something like this (Japanese omitted for obvious reasons):

    In article <20051221.192342.132228413.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> (at Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:23:42 +0900 (JST)), YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / [J][J][J][J] <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> says:

    > Hello.
    > 
    > Allow address enclosed by [] in URLs, like:
    >    git push '[3ffe:ffff:...:1]:GIT/git'
    > or
    >    git push 'ssh://[3ffe:ffff:...:1]/GIT/git'
    > 
    > Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>

    oops, this is not correct. Please use this instead.

Which made your MUA to send it in iso-2022-jp, and I suspect that is why I saw it only once, direct delivery.