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Re: UTF-8 issues



On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 01:52:40PM -0200, Carlos Laviola wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 04:12:15AM -0500, David Yitzchak Cohen wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 03:17:16AM -0200, Carlos Laviola wrote:

> > > Reply-by: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 08:33:44 -0200
> > 
> > Huh?  Does somebody turn into a pumpkin then?  I mean, I'll be sleeping
> > through it, unless there'll be fireworks or something. . .
> 
> It's an Outlook exploit.  It's like the X-Message-Flag that you and I
> use (I saw it in your muttrc), but in this case it turns your message
> bright red, since the date is in the past.

LOL, so it _does_ turn into a pumpkin ... cool!

> Unfortunately, I would have been able to show you some screenshots from
> "The Anti-Outlook Page" at http://www.rodos.net/outlook, but rodos.net
> is in registrar-lock mode for some odd reason.

It's okay, I've got my own copy from the last time I looked at it.
(I like to mirror most interesting stuff I come across on the 'net.
It's more useful than simply bookmarking.)

> But there's the google
> cache (text only, of course):
> 
> http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:CkZ6tGpzIhIJ:www.rodos.net/outlook/

I can't seem to find any mention of the "Reply-By:" exploit, though.
I must be blind :-(

> Some other pages:
> 
> This muttrc I found while googling does almost the same thing I do:
> 
> http://tony.rocks.cc/muttrc

Yeah, my own version now is based on it:

$ grep Reply-By ~/.mutt/muttrc
my_hdr Reply-By: `LC_ALL=C date --date="-2 years"`

> FWIW, the command I use is, suggestively,
> 
> my_hdr Reply-By: `date --date="666 hours ago" +"%a, %d %b %Y %T %z"`

Ah, whoops ... I just looked at "Tue" and figured you must mean tomorrow
(which is now today, of course).  I never guessed you'd leave me with
only -666 hours to respond during ;-P

 - Dave

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