[Info-vax] VMS-based InfoServer

[John Reagan]

<VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote in message 
news:00AA1779.74CD4768 at SendSpamHere.ORG...

> You explain what the fuck is gained by turning an "equal sign" into
> "equal sign 3D" and MAYBE, just MAYBE, I'll reconsider.  So far to
> date, I have never found any text requiring encoding -- let alone,
> quoted-pukeable.  It's *THE* dumbest encoding ever devised and look
> who's using it.

Since the format for quoted-printable is an equal sign followed by two hex 
digits, you need someway to denote a real equal sign.  You can't omit it 
since you then can't tell if an equal sign followed by two hex digits is a 
quoted-printable or just an equal sign followed by two hex digits in the 
actual output.

Then there is the use of equal as a soft line break to handle long lines 
with SMTP (which has line length restrictions).

John