[Info-vax] VMS-based InfoServer

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <A5mdnUwOdJEcVsTRnZ2dnUVZ_uKdnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B.
Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes: 

> >    What's so wrong about reading a VMS news group on a VMS system?
> 
> There's nothing intrinsically wrong with it.  I was objecting to a 
> complaint about VMS mail and how it handles message formats that are 
> quite common and handled correctly by most mail readers.
> 
> Do you see two spaces following my first sentence in the paragraph 
> above?  Apparently VMS MAIL treats this as an error and replaces the 
> second space with "=A0".  

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO.  NO.  While there are some bugs in VMS mail, 
this is NOT one of them.  The replacement (for which there is absolutely 
no justification) is done by the sender encoding his stuff (for no 
reason) in quoted-printable.