George Keremedjiev

On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 07:20:25PM -0500, ED SHARPE via cctalk wrote: To me, the problem is not with your emails (or anybody else's from this list), but the slow invasion performed by offending software. Since you pressed space once, it should be entered as single space, 0x20 in ASCII. If you pressed space twice, it should be entered into email written by you as two 0x20 bytes, and this is what should show on my side. My software receives some extra stuff from you, but not in a consistent manner, i.e. some ASCII spaces are prepended with extra two bytes and some not. I was not conscious about it - thought you had some peculiar space pressing manner or text postprocessor (like fmt) made double spaces in order to fit your lines into 130-characters width (because your lines were not folded at 79 or anywhere close). (In other words, it looks like everybody gets those extra bytes, only some programs choose to not show them, which - for me - is another problem and should be examined in due time). If what you press and what is being sent out to your recipients differs, then this is a problem, with potential security implications (as I learn with some horror, just anything in modern computer can turn against the owner, if he could be called owner at all). A software that mangles your input is not a friend. It should be terminated. Just MHO. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_rola at bigfoot.com **