Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread

From	Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c++
Subject	Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread
Date	2012-03-11 19:03 +0900
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Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> writes:
>> (2) "It shouldn't affect the way the article content is displayed by
>>     your newsreader."
>>
>> This is true, simply by the meaning of a "transfer encoding" -- an
>> encoding which is intended to avoid problems in transit, but which is
>> entirely undone before the mail/news-reader interprets the underlying
>> text.  It is intended to make sure the underlying text is
>> transparently transferred.
>
> As I've said elsewhere in the thread, this is debatable since no RFC
> specified MIME for NetNews until 2005. I still don't understand Alf's
> position, but I'm guessing the difference lies here.

What's debatable?  The meaning of "transfer encoding" is clear enough
for software that support MIME, so the crucial question is whether
both the sender and receiver support it or not -- and in this
particular case, they appear to (Alf is using Thunderbird, which
certainly claims to support MIME, and the sender's mail appears to
have been correctly MIME-encoded).

-miles

-- 
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to
do, and always a clever thing to say.  -- Will Durant

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copy/pass a va_list to another thread Christopher <cpisz@austin.rr.com> - 2012-03-07 14:36 -0800
  Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2012-03-08 02:04 +0100
    Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Christopher <cpisz@austin.rr.com> - 2012-03-08 11:54 -0800
      Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2012-03-08 21:41 +0100
        Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Christopher <cpisz@austin.rr.com> - 2012-03-08 13:56 -0800
          OT: Free Usenet Access red floyd <no.spam.here@its.invalid> - 2012-03-08 16:09 -0800
            Re: OT: Free Usenet Access Christopher Pisz <someone@somewhere.net> - 2012-03-09 10:26 -0600
          New Google Groups problems (was Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread) Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-03-09 12:27 +0000
          Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Robert Miles <milesrf@Usenet-News.net> - 2012-04-21 23:43 -0500
            XSUsenet.COM  @Jeff-Relf.Me - 2012-04-21 22:12 -0700
        Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2012-03-10 05:12 +0900
          Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2012-03-10 00:00 +0100
            Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2012-03-10 08:40 +0900
              Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2012-03-10 08:42 +0900
              MIME (Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread) Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-03-10 07:04 +0000
                Re: MIME (Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread) Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2012-03-10 16:56 +0900
                Re: MIME (Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread) Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2012-03-11 07:37 +0000
              Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2012-03-10 10:44 +0100
                Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-03-10 14:43 +0000
                Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2012-03-10 21:17 +0100
                Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2012-03-11 10:49 +0900
                Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-03-11 07:11 +0000
                Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2012-03-11 19:03 +0900
                Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-03-11 11:49 +0000
                Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2012-03-11 23:01 +0900
                Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2012-03-11 18:25 +0100
                Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-03-11 23:53 +0000
            Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Mike McCarty <mcmccarty@gmail.com> - 2012-03-10 05:47 -0800
              Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Dombo <dombo@disposable.invalid> - 2012-03-10 19:51 +0100
                Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2012-03-10 21:23 +0100
                Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Dombo <dombo@disposable.invalid> - 2012-03-11 14:36 +0100
                Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2012-03-11 18:33 +0100
                Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Dombo <dombo@disposable.invalid> - 2012-03-11 20:41 +0100
                Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2012-03-11 21:49 +0100
                Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-03-11 17:18 +0000
                Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2012-03-11 18:39 +0100
                Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-03-11 18:54 +0000
                Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2012-03-12 19:03 +0100
              Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-03-11 17:09 +0000
          Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2012-03-11 01:26 +0000
            Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2012-03-11 11:18 +0900
              Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2012-03-11 16:41 +0000
      Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2012-03-08 23:07 +0000
      Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Paavo Helde <myfirstname@osa.pri.ee> - 2012-03-08 23:17 -0600
      Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Stuart Redmann <DerTopper@web.de> - 2012-03-10 05:10 -0800
      Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-03-10 05:42 -0800
      Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread Robert Miles <milesrf@Usenet-News.net> - 2012-04-21 23:20 -0500
  Re: copy/pass a va_list to another thread BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-03-08 09:25 -0700

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