[Info-vax] VMS-based InfoServer

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <4c5aeffd$0$32458$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei
<jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes: 

> 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.

I could perhaps live with this.  But, folks, two spaces after a full 
stop should NOT be a reason to use QP!

> And when you use modern GUIs, one of the big issues is that text boxes
> return to the application one long string of text. 

Broken applications?

> The line breaks you
> see on the screen don't actually exist, unless you pressed RETURN in the
> text.  

Broken application?

> So the second you have a long papagraph, that software sees a
> single line longer than allowed and quoted printable kicks in.

Broken application?

How many Microsoft engineers does it take to change a light bulb?  None.
Darkness is defined as the new de-facto standard.