Re: Address munging in bodies

Dmitry Alexandrov <[email protected]> Mon, 08 Jun 2020 19:59:05 +0300

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Adam Sjøgren <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dmitry writes:
>> Do I recall correctly, that due to the very same concern even bodies of messages was munged once, but finally that have been lifted?

> I'm think the address encryption is everywhere in the article? An example: gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.user:5256 which is quite new.

Ah, indeed.  I was confused by the fact that ‘Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64’ became more common nowadays (especially with GPG-signed mail), and Gmane fails to recognize address-alike things in base64ʼed bodies and leaves them intact:

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