[Mailman-Users] The last release from the GNU Mailman project (was: Handling Munged From Addresses)

Phil Stracchino phils at caerllewys.net
Fri Feb 28 09:45:17 EST 2020


On 2020-02-28 05:44, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Mailman has the opposite problem.  We *wish* str was Unicode from the
> get-go, but it wasn't, and Mailman 2 is rife with potential encoded/
> decoded confusion because of the nature of email and the dual usage of
> str in Python 1, and the history of Mailman as an MLM for an American
> rock band (who needs no steekin' accents, we just hammer and bend the
> strings!)


This is clearly a story I didn't know.  :)  And now I'm curious...



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