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    Re: quoted-printable support —William R. Ward
   (...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 20-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp)
   
        Re: quoted-printable support Todd Lehman
   (...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 20-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp)
   
        Re: quoted-printable support —Dan Boger
     (...) check out Text::Autoformat - it does the right thing. Dan (22 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp)
    
         Re: quoted-printable support Todd Lehman
     (...) oooh...thanks...that looks like a very, very nice module. And by Damian Conway no less. --Todd (22 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp)
   
        Re: quoted-printable support —William R. Ward
   (...) [...] 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 Any newsreader that can't handle quoted-printable is obsolete and it's the user's problem. (...) (22 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp)
   
        Re: quoted-printable support Todd Lehman
   (...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp)
 

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