[Info-vax] VMS-based InfoServer

Phillip Helbig---undress to reply helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de
Thu Aug 5 03:36:41 EDT 2010


In article <4c59d3b9$0$9253$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei
<jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes: 

> Bob Koehler wrote:
> 
> >    There is no call for quoted printable in this newsgroup.  It doens't
> >    matter how cute the kiddies think it is.
> 
> I dont like quoted printable. They should have just allowed Latin-1 text
> (8 bit) in the specs. Unfortunatly, they didn't.

The problem is not encoding 8-bit stuff.  The problem is encoding 
SEVEN-BIT PRINTABLE ASCII.

> Is quoted printable necessary ? No. But it is there and in widespread
> use. You can't stop it. Sorry to say this: but learn to live with it.
> I did.

You will be assimilated.




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