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quoted-printable is obsolete and it's the user's problem.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