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Re: quoted-printable support
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lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp
Date: 
Wed, 21 May 2003 18:57:06 GMT
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"Todd Lehman" <todd@lugnet.com> writes:
I actually want to get rid of quoted-printable altogether -- as completely
and as early as possible in the cycle (e.g., as soon as the message is
received) and convert the message back to the way it was originall generated
by the sender.  That way it doesn't get propagated outward through NNTP and
SMTP as quoted-printable, which would be undesirable because not all
newsreaders handle quoted-printable encoding natively.  Some MTAs may even
choke on lines longer than, say, 512 bytes, if they aren't wrapped properly. • [...]  The additional step of wrapping
excessively long lines intelligently isn't something an MTA typically does,
AFAIK.

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quoted-printable is obsolete and it's the user's problem.

--Bill.

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William R Ward            bill@wards.net          http://www.wards.net/~bill/
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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)

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  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)

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