spurious characters in cvs-all subject

[Andrew Boothman]

Larry Sica wrote:

>>> A square box after right after "cvs commit:".  I saw it in this 
>>> message:
>>>
>>> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=130598+0+current/cvs-all
>>>
>>
>> I noticed them too viewing my mail in Mozilla 1.3b in several commit 
>> messages on cvs-all. They seem to be the standard character that 
>> Mozilla uses when it doesn't know how to render a character as they 
>> turn up in large quantites in 90% of the spam I get.....
>
> Most likely they had a character in there that the mail app couldnt 
> render like mentioned above, i've seen it with non-standard charsets.  
> Odds are they are not using the same charset or a charset your mailer 
> had an issue with... 


I'm sure it's something like that, that doesn't explain how it managed 
to turn up in a few commit messages a few hours apart and then never be 
seen again. A cvs commit mail sure doesn't use unusual characters in 
it's subject line.

Also, I just noticed the box appearing again in the subject of a recent 
mail to -announce about that new sendmail exploit. Did you see it there 
Dan? But strangely not in the identical post to -security-announcements 
which I also got.

Strange....

Andrew.