Re: Mailing list headers: Date:<TAB> instead of Date:<SPACE>

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 13, 2010, 18:37 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=Eyq=UmOenJSfxOtBcuZDwxG1ooKgcA=Vf-qG1@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100913183054.GE7006@danbala.tuwien.ac.at>

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 18:30, Thomas Klausner <tk@giga.or.at> wrote:

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> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:24:59AM -0700, Chris Packham wrote:
>> There is also a problem with your definition of "uncommon". I haven't
>> checked but I'm guessing the tabs are there for every mailing list run
>> by vger.kernel.org. Those are some of the highest volume mailing lists
>> that I know of. It can't be to hard to change tin to parse a tab or
>> space character.
>
> I'm sorry if you don't like my choice of words. I have subscribed to a
> number of mailing lists and read them in tin without stumbling over
> this problem.
>
> Is my request so much to ask?

Well, yeah. You're asking that someone that maintains the mailing list go and modify the mailing list software due to some trivial bug in a non-RFC compliant client.

The bug can presumably just be fixed by changing something like this in tin:

    while (*s++ == '') { ... }

to:

    while (isspace(*s++)) { ... }

So why not just do that? Then you'll have fixed the bug for all tin users regardless of what mailing list they're subscribing to.