[Info-vax] VMS-based InfoServer

[Mike Rechtman]

On 05/08/10 15:27, Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> 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.

This message is sent using Thunderbird under Linux.  I am purposely ending the 
sentences with a period (fullstop) followed by two spaces, and letting the lines 
run on until they wrap.
Hopefully there will be no "=" signs in this message -- except the one placed on 
purpose some words back.
If indeed there are none, posting without QP is possible from T-Bird.
OTOH if there are some, I apologize and abase myself.

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