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([2a01:261:2b2:700::811]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id r16-20020a5d4e50000000b001f0075f4ca1sm1977655wrt.105.2022.03.01.02.50.00 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 01 Mar 2022 02:50:01 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2022 11:50:00 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.6.1 Subject: Re: Should we take steps to reduce russian access to Free Software?> the headache of it all dissolves in forgiveness Content-Language: en-US To: rms@gnu.org Cc: libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org, gregor References: <25b59d57-597d-4ef4-9e93-2c067a1d81fc@rixotstudio.cz> <3e8de9db-9397-6c6a-956f-5b8eacea60cf@fsf.org> <35700904-028a-1dbf-3d48-0478701ae0f8@gmail.com> From: gregor In-Reply-To: X-Host-Lookup-Failed: Reverse DNS lookup failed for 2a00:1450:4864:20::332 (failed) Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2a00:1450:4864:20::332; envelope-from=podrzaj.gregor@gmail.com; helo=mail-wm1-x332.google.com X-Spam_score_int: -6 X-Spam_score: -0.7 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (-0.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HTML_MESSAGE=0.001, NICE_REPLY_A=-0.001, PDS_HP_HELO_NORDNS=0.659, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RDNS_NONE=0.793, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 01 Mar 2022 09:48:39 -0500 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.29 X-BeenThere: libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0028886669844430132==" Errors-To: libreplanet-discuss-bounces+e=80x24.org@libreplanet.org Sender: "libreplanet-discuss" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --===============0028886669844430132== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------up3iOcDZq0uMI0CpoZgTUykc" Content-Language: en-US This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------up3iOcDZq0uMI0CpoZgTUykc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit dear mr rms, i will always and more than gladly think, before answering any letter that you send me. it is always an honour. let me not even begin, by putting some caveats first: as for all the spelling mistakes, please bear with them(you might specially notice how gladly i dont use capital letters, i never knew where to put comas, must be sort of personal coma koma, etc.).  and the clumsines of my english must be known by now. as for the humor, i realize mine is not funny for most people, but i know surrelly of one, who is always laughing at them. those jokes are for him. be that thinking even harmfull to me, i will do it. you my kind sir, are a treasure, time will only tell the greatness of. "pa pojdimo lepo po vrsti, kot so tudi hiše v trsti" is what we would say for such an occasion (its never late to start learning another language, my mothers tonge is beautiful) firstly i thought of doing the positive logical approach, that is to say, i shall write a letter of answer to Jaocob H., the way i imagine it would and should be written (outreach, communications, emphasis). for the difference of negative approach, where i go and try to dismantle or rather go against(hence negative aproach) - one by one - Devins statments, claims, toughs etc., which i will do in a second part. then in the third part, i shall try answering your questions. is also why i use word: logical swordfigt - for me  it connotates a negative logic approach dialog, and is also why i claim headaches for thinking. i dont like to fight, gives head&heart ache. so here goes nothing (like in that monthypython meanning of life, where the french waiter takes us to see "it", only to dismiss us in the end) so what was rude? you ask. the logic of it all. it hurt my logic. rudeness which was to hurt my feelings of ratio, strange huh? the sheer prepostorous reassoning behind it all. so i go now dismantle that poor selection of wordings (watch the head boy) /*let me first find that letter ... here it is ... ### On 2/24/22 03:04, Jacob Hrbek wrote: > Today russian forces invaded ukraine and started an unprovoked war > with free software being used across russia and in the government > thus playing a major role in russia's war capabilities. What the FSF is taking action on immediately is abiding economic sanctions against Russia. This effects distribution of shop orders and membership cards, for example. ### POSITIVE: my dear mr. Jacob H., (i already see, it will be hard for me to drop the usual cinisizm i would personally use, i would say here something like --- wtf, go read the 4 freedoms, meditate on it and come back. but as an ourtreach comm, it could be something like:) your claim in the first statement is full of very opinioneated statements,  (aaah, see, thats not good altough they all are just that) try nr.2 dear mr jacob H., the sentiments you express are your personal ones. please refrain from expressing them on this list, because they are very very contraversial, and we dont want nor need to involve ourselves and our organisation in them contraversies. i might share them, we all might (or none), but it is completelly out of the scope of this list, also, let me remind you, that FSF is not a political organization. so, rude as it may sound, lets not talk politics here, shall  we. try3: dear mr J.H., there is always much contraversies, let alone tragedies, around us all. i can see your emotional reaction and can appreciate it as such, but, FSF is not, can not and shall not be part of any such controversies let alone worse. i would also like to remind you, that going by emotions in this case is just worsening the situation, so please, think better of it. NEGATIVE: when Devin answers with: " 'what' the FSF ... ", that 'what' makes me think that there is something going on, something extraordinare (for the difference of uganda, tunguzija and slovenija, where daily people suffer) but lets see, what comes next: "... is taking action on immediately" , so there is active immediate response, by which i imagine some people doing the research on how to best fullfill  " ... is abiding economic sanctions against Russia ..." oh, is not that bad, still shows to me there is an active engagement in abiding them sanctions, and that, as much as i dont like(active engagement), must be done. but then, is there the same amount of active engagemant on all the other issues? and that is no trivial question, for there might be monsanto using free software for spraying prohibited neonicotins, or ... and then we come to the problem of arbitrirary choosing as best as we can, out of zillion unjustices, which ones we will fight against. monsanto? terrorists? bad jokes? so who will decide - Freud or Jung? who's the arbiter. very Pandoraboxical you see. it's a trap. so i wonder what would this selective active engagement in our case mean. and i come to the conclusion, that it is a political stance. its active and selective, what more can you do as a solder taking sides. to add. there is a complete lack of correcting Jacob in boldness to put forward his emotional political assumptions, thus opening the pandoras box of, well you know, everything flew out, all we are left with now is hope. now i am to elaborate how come, that Jacobs statement is but propaganda, at best just his opinion. but i will not. it is my firm opinion that it is. but i also share another opinion, which is: it is very bad to share opinions like they were apples, among so many strangers in so short a space, they're bound to land rotten. lets just stick each to our own rotten apple (opinion). or as g.marx said: i have this principle, if you dont like it, well, i have others. but jokes aside, it's not about Jacobs opinions, i could go fence more on that, but why. it's just to point out - again - that the answer or rather the lack of it, shows complete support of emotionally charged jacobs opinion (the stupiditi of a sentence: "with free software being used across russia and in the government." would be so easilly destroyed i am ashamed even to think of words. the headache of it all. and mind you, i think i am doing us all a big favor, not to mention more about that) ### now for the second part, the horror of it > Should we and can we take steps to prevent/reduce russia's access to > our software? We are working within the legal frameworks of this evolving situation, and will seek legal advice when necessary. The details are complex given the very nature of free (as in freedom) software. In short, the FSF is taking the situation seriously. Thank you for raising the point. ### positive: take 1: there is no such thing as reducing access in them 4 freedoms. some politenenss about how to best understand 4 freedoms maybe a link or two (so for all them nubs, not to blunder stupidities) nr.2: your statement again shows more emotions than logic. by the 4 freedoms we shall live, whitout, we are gonners "v tretje gre rado" - many a times, there is this third take that i make good. 3: The answer to your question is thankfully very simple. we should not and would not want to. for the 4 freedoms are beyond the petty politics of the day. /* and some conclusion saying that nobody better touch this subject even with a stick ... "da se nebi niti s palico dotaknil tega dreka", of course polite negative: unless its a royal We, there are as i suspected earlier, at least 2! persons working selectivelly activelly, "within a legal frameworks", that sounds ok, but for the obvious abovementioned selectivness. (no new argument here), "will seek ..." ok, ok. again (old argument), for how many other things were deemed necessary, and who chooses it. (same argument used above) "details are complex" ... maybe, them sanctions every day different, but the four freedoms are not complex. so what coplexness is he on about i wonder. and i conclude, that he is talking about his not understanding the beauty of simplicity that the four freedoms gospel exhibits. for if he would, he would dismiss Jacobs question about "prevent/reduce" in the first place. and there are at least 2 persons in FSF (i doubt Devin spends royal with cheese) actively doing something, against 4 freedoms is what i conclude. "taking situation seriously" i think i dismantled this twice already. "thank you for raising the point". this alone statement could be fine, but in the context, is what i blurred in my rude letter, as if he (and at least one more person) was hardly waiting to add his emotions to the "pandoras  spectre flying circus", hence negativelly impact on the whole "war in question" happenings (don't know how better to shortly put it), dragging FSF in that dark place where only hope survives. also and again - no correcting jacobs misimpretation of the four freedoms  alone is bad. but then, when Jacob claims the software "our software". is there no decency left? yes sure, i am rude and undecent. but nothing surpasses that apropriatory statement "our software". are russians not human? ### now to answer your questions (as best as i can, and will gladly try to shine more light on the obscurities, if asked): why rude you ask. it hurt my sense of logic. instead of stopping the hate, lowering emotional charge, there is warmongering shouting(am not thinking in english now, so translation of my thoughts is clumsilly direct). and i tought something like that could not happen in FSF. i find it very rude to be calling civilians to go to war. i find it very very rude to be coming from FSF. when i say "and signed with fsf credentials" my meanning is: he is representing an official stance "glede tega vprašanja" on this subject. and if that is so (for which i doubted at that time), i am now dumbfounded to realize, that fsf is a political front. or am i wrong? when you say: His message was political in the sense that it responded to a political question about a political situation. That's natural. firstly, i am sadened to see you defend his position. my sentiment namely is: no political debate or expressing ones political opinion is valid in fsf (unless pertaining to free software). so i don't see why you needed to dvelve into this. surelly, everithing is political. greek for non-political person is i-diotes (nowadays we use it differently :). but there are so many petty politics, i don't see this war (don't get me wrong, there is no petty war, ever been) as being any different. for, i could send a mail a day to libreplanet about some or other injustice, claiming complete knowledge of it and demanding action. I don't know what "politično angažiran" means. The words "politically motivated" are vague; if you're trying to hint at something, I don't know what it is. It would be a mistake to try to guess! his letter is in my opinion polittically motivated. he is taking a stand in a war which he is no part of. and even if he were, that should be his personal view and shouldnt come even close to fsf. why recruting soldiers for a war you never been even close to, and thinking that everything you get out of that box, called tv is truth. you might be recruting murderes of civilians, in the case your tv lied to you. are you willing to take that risk? not to mention, most of you never been to war. well i have. and it was fought by that same type of people you are demonstrating now to be. warmongers from "other continents" (is more to that, but the heartache of it). and propaganda. and then my people died. (am criying now remembering, but thats all good) the rest of your letter i think has no questions in it, so i shall conclude with: i am always willing to accept any and all apologies, and offer mine when i fell i did wrong. what, but flowers we are, coloring our way, closer and closer to the sun. and forgivness is the basis of my "religion", so i am so very glad that you've ended your letter with it there will always be a huge room for you in my heart, dear mr rms yt g On 1. 03. 22 05:24, Richard Stallman wrote: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > > the reasson for me being rude is, that i find the letter of Devin U. so > > very rude. > > I have to say that I don't see anything rude in it, not even slightly. > It doesn't insult anyone, or criticize anyone. There is no anger in > it. Is it possible you've misunderstood the meaning of "rude"? > > > he wanted to know, i guess a valid question (if you dont know > > that FSF is not a political organization) > > Yes, it was a valid question. Some people know enough about the FSF > to see what the answer would be. But some people don't know, > so they will want to ask. > > > but the answer that i read is quite "politično angažiran" (translate > > from slovene - politically motivated?). and signed with FSF credentials! > > Devin is on the FSF staff, and his message says so. I don't see > anything strange about that. > > His message was political in the sense that it responded to a > political question about a political situation. That's natural. > > I don't know what "politično angažiran" means. The words "politically > motivated" are vague; if you're trying to hint at something, I don't > know what it is. It would be a mistake to try to guess! > > I see you accused Devin of some sort of dishonesty or wrongdoing, but > that makes no sense to me. I don't see any dishonesty or wrongdoing > in his message. So I appreciate your apologizing for that. > > Devin's message did have an imperfection: it was abstract and left > unanswered some practical questions about what the FSF would do. I > hope my message answered those questions. But that's not wrongdoing, > it's just an imperfection. None of us is perfect, we can only do our > best. Let's forgive each other. > --------------up3iOcDZq0uMI0CpoZgTUykc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" dear mr rms, i will always and more than gladly think, before answering any letter that you send me. it is always an honour. let me not even begin, by putting some caveats first: as for all the spelling mistakes, please bear with them(you might specially notice how gladly i dont use capital letters, i never knew where to put comas, must be sort of personal coma koma, etc.). and the clumsines of my english must be known by now. as for the humor, i realize mine is not funny for most people, but i know surrelly of one, who is always laughing at them. those jokes are for him. be that thinking even harmfull to me, i will do it. you my kind sir, are a treasure, time will only tell the greatness of. "pa pojdimo lepo po vrsti, kot so tudi hiše v trsti" is what we would say for such an occasion (its never late to start learning another language, my mothers tonge is beautiful) firstly i thought of doing the positive logical approach, that is to say, i shall write a letter of answer to Jaocob H., the way i imagine it would and should be written (outreach, communications, emphasis). for the difference of negative approach, where i go and try to dismantle or rather go against(hence negative aproach) - one by one - Devins statments, claims, toughs etc., which i will do in a second part. then in the third part, i shall try answering your questions. is also why i use word: logical swordfigt - for me it connotates a negative logic approach dialog, and is also why i claim headaches for thinking. i dont like to fight, gives head&heart ache. so here goes nothing (like in that monthypython meanning of life, where the french waiter takes us to see "it", only to dismiss us in the end) so what was rude? you ask. the logic of it all. it hurt my logic. rudeness which was to hurt my feelings of ratio, strange huh? the sheer prepostorous reassoning behind it all. so i go now dismantle that poor selection of wordings (watch the head boy) /*let me first find that letter ... here it is ... ### On 2/24/22 03:04, Jacob Hrbek wrote: Today russian forces invaded ukraine and started an unprovoked war with free software being used across russia and in the government thus playing a major role in russia's war capabilities. What the FSF is taking action on immediately is abiding economic sanctions against Russia. This effects distribution of shop orders and membership cards, for example. ### POSITIVE: my dear mr. Jacob H., (i already see, it will be hard for me to drop the usual cinisizm i would personally use, i would say here something like --- wtf, go read the 4 freedoms, meditate on it and come back. but as an ourtreach comm, it could be something like:) your claim in the first statement is full of very opinioneated statements, (aaah, see, thats not good altough they all are just that) try nr.2 dear mr jacob H., the sentiments you express are your personal ones. please refrain from expressing them on this list, because they are very very contraversial, and we dont want nor need to involve ourselves and our organisation in them contraversies. i might share them, we all might (or none), but it is completelly out of the scope of this list, also, let me remind you, that FSF is not a political organization. so, rude as it may sound, lets not talk politics here, shall we. try3: dear mr J.H., there is always much contraversies, let alone tragedies, around us all. i can see your emotional reaction and can appreciate it as such, but, FSF is not, can not and shall not be part of any such controversies let alone worse. i would also like to remind you, that going by emotions in this case is just worsening the situation, so please, think better of it. NEGATIVE: when Devin answers with: " 'what' the FSF ... ", that 'what' makes me think that there is something going on, something extraordinare (for the difference of uganda, tunguzija and slovenija, where daily people suffer) but lets see, what comes next: "... is taking action on immediately" , so there is active immediate response, by which i imagine some people doing the research on how to best fullfill " ... is abiding economic sanctions against Russia ..." oh, is not that bad, still shows to me there is an active engagement in abiding them sanctions, and that, as much as i dont like(active engagement), must be done. but then, is there the same amount of active engagemant on all the other issues? and that is no trivial question, for there might be monsanto using free software for spraying prohibited neonicotins, or ... and then we come to the problem of arbitrirary choosing as best as we can, out of zillion unjustices, which ones we will fight against. monsanto? terrorists? bad jokes? so who will decide - Freud or Jung? who's the arbiter. very Pandoraboxical you see. it's a trap. so i wonder what would this selective active engagement in our case mean. and i come to the conclusion, that it is a political stance. its active and selective, what more can you do as a solder taking sides. to add. there is a complete lack of correcting Jacob in boldness to put forward his emotional political assumptions, thus opening the pandoras box of, well you know, everything flew out, all we are left with now is hope. now i am to elaborate how come, that Jacobs statement is but propaganda, at best just his opinion. but i will not. it is my firm opinion that it is. but i also share another opinion, which is: it is very bad to share opinions like they were apples, among so many strangers in so short a space, they're bound to land rotten. lets just stick each to our own rotten apple (opinion). or as g.marx said: i have this principle, if you dont like it, well, i have others. but jokes aside, it's not about Jacobs opinions, i could go fence more on that, but why. it's just to point out - again - that the answer or rather the lack of it, shows complete support of emotionally charged jacobs opinion (the stupiditi of a sentence: "with free software being used across russia and in the government." would be so easilly destroyed i am ashamed even to think of words. the headache of it all. and mind you, i think i am doing us all a big favor, not to mention more about that) ### now for the second part, the horror of it Should we and can we take steps to prevent/reduce russia's access to our software? We are working within the legal frameworks of this evolving situation, and will seek legal advice when necessary. The details are complex given the very nature of free (as in freedom) software. In short, the FSF is taking the situation seriously. Thank you for raising the point. ### positive: take 1: there is no such thing as reducing access in them 4 freedoms. some politenenss about how to best understand 4 freedoms maybe a link or two (so for all them nubs, not to blunder stupidities) nr.2: your statement again shows more emotions than logic. by the 4 freedoms we shall live, whitout, we are gonners "v tretje gre rado" - many a times, there is this third take that i make good. 3: The answer to your question is thankfully very simple. we should not and would not want to. for the 4 freedoms are beyond the petty politics of the day. /* and some conclusion saying that nobody better touch this subject even with a stick ... "da se nebi niti s palico dotaknil tega dreka", of course polite negative: unless its a royal We, there are as i suspected earlier, at least 2! persons working selectivelly activelly, "within a legal frameworks", that sounds ok, but for the obvious abovementioned selectivness. (no new argument here), "will seek ..." ok, ok. again (old argument), for how many other things were deemed necessary, and who chooses it. (same argument used above) "details are complex" ... maybe, them sanctions every day different, but the four freedoms are not complex. so what coplexness is he on about i wonder. and i conclude, that he is talking about his not understanding the beauty of simplicity that the four freedoms gospel exhibits. for if he would, he would dismiss Jacobs question about "prevent/reduce" in the first place. and there are at least 2 persons in FSF (i doubt Devin spends royal with cheese) actively doing something, against 4 freedoms is what i conclude. "taking situation seriously" i think i dismantled this twice already. "thank you for raising the point". this alone statement could be fine, but in the context, is what i blurred in my rude letter, as if he (and at least one more person) was hardly waiting to add his emotions to the "pandoras spectre flying circus", hence negativelly impact on the whole "war in question" happenings (don't know how better to shortly put it), dragging FSF in that dark place where only hope survives. also and again - no correcting jacobs misimpretation of the four freedoms alone is bad. but then, when Jacob claims the software "our software". is there no decency left? yes sure, i am rude and undecent. but nothing surpasses that apropriatory statement "our software". are russians not human? ### now to answer your questions (as best as i can, and will gladly try to shine more light on the obscurities, if asked): why rude you ask. it hurt my sense of logic. instead of stopping the hate, lowering emotional charge, there is warmongering shouting(am not thinking in english now, so translation of my thoughts is clumsilly direct). and i tought something like that could not happen in FSF. i find it very rude to be calling civilians to go to war. i find it very very rude to be coming from FSF. when i say "and signed with fsf credentials" my meanning is: he is representing an official stance "glede tega vprašanja" on this subject. and if that is so (for which i doubted at that time), i am now dumbfounded to realize, that fsf is a political front. or am i wrong? when you say: His message was political in the sense that it responded to a political question about a political situation. That's natural. firstly, i am sadened to see you defend his position. my sentiment namely is: no political debate or expressing ones political opinion is valid in fsf (unless pertaining to free software). so i don't see why you needed to dvelve into this. surelly, everithing is political. greek for non-political person is i-diotes (nowadays we use it differently :). but there are so many petty politics, i don't see this war (don't get me wrong, there is no petty war, ever been) as being any different. for, i could send a mail a day to libreplanet about some or other injustice, claiming complete knowledge of it and demanding action. I don't know what "politično angažiran" means. The words "politically motivated" are vague; if you're trying to hint at something, I don't know what it is. It would be a mistake to try to guess! his letter is in my opinion polittically motivated. he is taking a stand in a war which he is no part of. and even if he were, that should be his personal view and shouldnt come even close to fsf. why recruting soldiers for a war you never been even close to, and thinking that everything you get out of that box, called tv is truth. you might be recruting murderes of civilians, in the case your tv lied to you. are you willing to take that risk? not to mention, most of you never been to war. well i have. and it was fought by that same type of people you are demonstrating now to be. warmongers from "other continents" (is more to that, but the heartache of it). and propaganda. and then my people died. (am criying now remembering, but thats all good) the rest of your letter i think has no questions in it, so i shall conclude with: i am always willing to accept any and all apologies, and offer mine when i fell i did wrong. what, but flowers we are, coloring our way, closer and closer to the sun. and forgivness is the basis of my "religion", so i am so very glad that you've ended your letter with it there will always be a huge room for you in my heart, dear mr rms yt g On 1. 03. 22 05:24, Richard Stallman wrote: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > the reasson for me being rude is, that i find the letter of Devin U. so > very rude. I have to say that I don't see anything rude in it, not even slightly. It doesn't insult anyone, or criticize anyone. There is no anger in it. Is it possible you've misunderstood the meaning of "rude"? > he wanted to know, i guess a valid question (if you dont know > that FSF is not a political organization) Yes, it was a valid question. Some people know enough about the FSF to see what the answer would be. But some people don't know, so they will want to ask. > but the answer that i read is quite "politično angažiran" (translate > from slovene - politically motivated?). and signed with FSF credentials! Devin is on the FSF staff, and his message says so. I don't see anything strange about that. His message was political in the sense that it responded to a political question about a political situation. That's natural. I don't know what "politično angažiran" means. The words "politically motivated" are vague; if you're trying to hint at something, I don't know what it is. It would be a mistake to try to guess! I see you accused Devin of some sort of dishonesty or wrongdoing, but that makes no sense to me. I don't see any dishonesty or wrongdoing in his message. So I appreciate your apologizing for that. Devin's message did have an imperfection: it was abstract and left unanswered some practical questions about what the FSF would do. I hope my message answered those questions. But that's not wrongdoing, it's just an imperfection. None of us is perfect, we can only do our best. Let's forgive each other. --------------up3iOcDZq0uMI0CpoZgTUykc-- --===============0028886669844430132== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: inline X19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX18KbGlicmVwbGFu ZXQtZGlzY3VzcyBtYWlsaW5nIGxpc3QKbGlicmVwbGFuZXQtZGlzY3Vzc0BsaWJyZXBsYW5ldC5v cmcKaHR0cHM6Ly9saXN0cy5saWJyZXBsYW5ldC5vcmcvbWFpbG1hbi9saXN0aW5mby9saWJyZXBs YW5ldC1kaXNjdXNzCg== --===============0028886669844430132==--