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In article <5m0ri7-68a.ln1 at Ubuntu.mike-r.com>, Mike Rechtman <mike at rechtman.com> writes:
>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.

Well Mike, you've proved that others are just inept at configuring their
Thunderbird.

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Thanks.  Absolutely perfectly legible here.
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