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On Aug 4, 3:20 pm, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> You explain what the fuck is gained by turning an "equal sign" into
> "equal sign 3D" and MAYBE, just MAYBE, I'll reconsider.

At the time, it gained interoperability with a large number of systems
behind EBCDIC based message routers. They could not be counted on to
preserve a more reasonable prefix escape character. I think that is no
longer a serious concern. So now the technical value of quoted-
printable is interoperability with the installed base.

Not sure whether I would upgrade to a quoted-printable aware
newsreader if I were you. Do you enjoy complaining about the problem
more than you would enjoy the solution?

> So far to date, I have never found any text requiring encoding

Not sure whether I envy you or not.

Cheers!