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  Re: quoted-printable support
 
(...) O-Ya, I agree in theory. But it becomes my problem, too, when someone running a dumb client quotes the un-decoded content in a reply, and people suffer from broken links and weird looking text. And if someone posts a qp reply to that, then the (...) (21 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp)
 
  Re: quoted-printable support
 
(...) Oops, sorry about that. 2,187. Forgot to fill that in when the script completed. --Todd (21 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
 
  Re: quoted-printable support
 
(...) For what value of xx,xxx? (21 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
 
  Re: quoted-printable support
 
(...) [...] The additional step of wrapping (...) I was only speaking of the web interface. That's why I didn't cc admin.nntp on my original posting... Any newsreader that can't handle quoted-printable is obsolete and it's the user's problem. (...) (21 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp)
 
  Re: quoted-printable support
 
(...) Does this also prevent breaking of URLs? Frank (21 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
 
  Re: quoted-printable support
 
I have installed a filter so that incoming articles with the header: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable are converted to 8bit encoding. The header is replaced with: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable (...) (21 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp)
 
  Re: quoted-printable support
 
(...) oooh...thanks...that looks like a very, very nice module. And by Damian Conway no less. --Todd (21 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp)
 
  Re: quoted-printable support
 
(...) check out Text::Autoformat - it does the right thing. Dan (21 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp)
 
  Re: quoted-printable support
 
(...) Unfortunately, Text::Wrap doesn't handle mail- and news-style quotations, and would happily convert: > >> >really especially long line of quoted text to (bad): > >> >really especially long line of quoted text instead of to (good): > >> >really (...) (21 years ago, 20-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp)
 
  Re: quoted-printable support
 
(...) Yes, I've seen that too. You could always use Text::Wrap to reformat anything over 80 characters... (...) The biggest problem is the =3D in Brickshelf URL's. Even a special case to change =3D to = would be a huge help. (...) I assumed you (...) (21 years ago, 20-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp)


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