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In article <5763dc8e-ef04-4844-a827-0acc38849dd2 at d8g2000yqf.googlegroups.com>, MetaEd <metaed at gmail.com> writes:
>On Aug 4, 3:20=A0pm, 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?

TEXT.  TEXT.  TEXT.  

As far as I am concerned, DCL is text.  There's no need to convert it
to a usenet hostile and non-standard encoding.  Period.

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