Bug#343630: [Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#343630: archives html attachments in a thuroughly useless, double-escaped form

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 12:50:51PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:

> When archiving html attachments, mailman htmlizes them, including
> escaping all the html characters. The result is that a once-readable
> html attachment turns into a usless monstrosity

Hmm... Indeed.

> I think it should leave html attachments alone and unmunged;

Yes and no. HTML attachments can contain web bugs, damaging Java /
JavaScript / ... Which is all served from a friendly, trusted domain
as far as the browser is concerned.

-- 
Lionel