Empty messages (was Re: Any computer, anywhere?)
On 12/8/2013 8:13 AM, Michael Brown wrote:
I've been getting several of these (empty messages) from different people and on different subjects but always on the NANOG list. Secret messages? Or is NSA sucking too hard? -- Requiescas in pace o email Two identifying characteristics of System Administrators: Ex turpi causa non oritur actio Infallibility, and the ability to learn from their mistakes. (Adapted from Stephen Pinker)
On 12/8/2013 4:59 PM, Larry Sheldon wrote:
On 12/8/2013 8:13 AM, Michael Brown wrote:
I've been getting several of these (empty messages) from different people and on different subjects but always on the NANOG list.
Secret messages? Or is NSA sucking too hard?
I confirm I've been seeing the same thing. I've also been seeing more duplicate messages than I would attribute to someone sending twice.
Confirming I've also been receiving blank messages. Most recently Michael Browns email sent at 9:13am 12/8/13 -- Jon Sands
Same here, they are written with invisible bits, like invisible ink. You have to drop some special lemon juice on your email client to be able to see it. -Jorge
On Dec 8, 2013, at 4:24 PM, ML <ml@kenweb.org> wrote:
On 12/8/2013 4:59 PM, Larry Sheldon wrote:
On 12/8/2013 8:13 AM, Michael Brown wrote:
I've been getting several of these (empty messages) from different people and on different subjects but always on the NANOG list.
Secret messages? Or is NSA sucking too hard?
I confirm I've been seeing the same thing. I've also been seeing more duplicate messages than I would attribute to someone sending twice.
On 13-12-08 10:02 PM, Jorge Amodio wrote:
Same here, they are written with invisible bits, like invisible ink. You have to drop some special lemon juice on your email client to be able to see it. Lemon juice as promised, to be applied prior to de-HTML-izing email:
http://stackoverflow.com/q/20462965/93180 M. -- Michael Brown | The true sysadmin does not adjust his behaviour Systems Administrator | to fit the machine. He adjusts the machine michael@supermathie.net | until it behaves properly. With a hammer, | if necessary. - Brian
On 13-12-08 04:59 PM, Larry Sheldon wrote:
On 12/8/2013 8:13 AM, Michael Brown wrote:
I've been getting several of these (empty messages) from different people and on different subjects but always on the NANOG list.
Secret messages? Or is NSA sucking too hard?
This I can solidly attribute (at least in my case) to the fact that BlackBerry 10 devices only send emails with a text/html part and no text/plain part. I've seen this cause problems in a few places - notably in services that automatically parse emails for replying to forums/chat/etc. (Discourse & kato.im and now the nanog list which strips text/html). Somewhere I have a nice little python snippet I wrote for extracting text out of the html. It's convenient when you're *expecting* it (you can use the html div information to separate out the actual reply vs. the signature vs. the quoted text) but when you're expecting to be able to use text/plain, it's just not there. (arguments over who is being a worse Internetizen - BB for not having text/plain or Mailman/Mimedel for stripping out text/html when there's no text/plain are not included in this :D ) M. -- Michael Brown | The true sysadmin does not adjust his behaviour Systems Administrator | to fit the machine. He adjusts the machine michael@supermathie.net | until it behaves properly. With a hammer, | if necessary. - Brian
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