Re: SSH tunneling / X forwarding

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia (nkadel@verizon.net)
Date: 03/25/03 

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@verizon.net>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 01:01:13 GMT

Richard Lefebvre wrote:
> For me, my problem with messages in newsgroup in MIME and/or HTML
> doesn't really have to do with possible security problem, but more
> on needing bloatware to read these messages. Also a 3 line message
> that would take 200bytes (not counting headers) becomes 2kbytes
> messages under HTML. It is just 3 lines of text, why would I need
> all the surrounding HTML for that?
>
> Also, I'm a bit of a Unix geezer, I still use nn to read newsgroups.
> I can use it in a shell without the need of the X forwarding in
> text mode.
>
> Richard Lefebvre

And I just ran into another one. Mail to mailing lists, with the message
encapsulated as a MIME attachment instead of as a binary, makes the
message unsearchable except fot the headers. Sending binary files this
way also expands the size of the searchable database for tools like
htdig. Near as I can tell, htdig is indexing the 80 character lines of
MIME encapsulation as individual unique words...

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