[Info-vax] VMS-based InfoServer

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
> 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.
> 

I'm not purposely sending "quoted-printable".  I don't encode anything.

Perhaps you are objecting to the Mozilla/Thunderbird mail/news client 
and whatever it's doing.

I've been using it for many years reading messages and, occasionally, 
replying.  This is the FIRST time that I have seen any complaints about 
the formatting of messages I have sent.