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[JF Mezei]

Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:

> The main point is that QP is just not necessary for 7-bit printable
> ASCII.

>From what I have seen, Quoted Printable kicks in the second the sender's
software sees something which doesn't fit the original NNTP standard.

And when you use modern GUIs, one of the big issues is that text boxes
return to the application one long string of text. The line breaks you
see on the screen don't actually exist, unless you pressed RETURN in the
text.  So the second you have a long papagraph, that software sees a
single line longer than allowed and quoted printable kicks in.

Thunderbird has an option to automatically wrap text (aka: insert cr/lf
) when a line exceeds a certain length (forget if 72 or 75 characters).
This does avoid having to quoted-printable the message.


> Best solved by not writing long lines in the first place.

quoted printable has allowed more flexibility in how you write your text
while maintaining a "abides by the 1960s standards" rule. Same for the
various binary file encoding techniques.