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On Aug 5, 2:41 am, hel... at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---
undress to reply) wrote:
> "=" is a poor choice of escape.  Some rarer character, such as
> "\" (used by TeX, for this reason) would have been better.

Yes, and was considered. But backslash would not reliably pass through
EBCDIC gateways, which (believe it or not) was a major headache at the
time. The author of the quoted-printable spec wrote that the following
characters could not be counted on to get through: !"#$@[\]^`{|}~